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Arbitrary And Careless Discourses Degenerate The Legal Definition And Content Of The Term Genocide

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  • Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul

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Parallel to the terrible suffering caused by the war, profoundly severe allegations of war crimes being committed in Ukraine are being voiced, and these allegations are gaining more and more validity. It is seen that the term "genocide" has been used frequently by the leaders of some countries in the recent period, and leading international media organizations also broadcast in a way that will make the public adopt this term for alleged war crimes. Raphael Lemkin, a Polis lawyer of Jewish ancestry, coined the term in 1944. The Genocide Convention should not be eroded, and the term genocide, which has a strict legal definition, should not be used randomly. The views expressed by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, regarding the allegations of war crimes in Ukraine and the term genocide used in relation to these allegations have been quite surprising. Macron has expressed his views on this subject in an interview with the radio channel French Blue. He stated that: “The word genocide must be qualified by jurists, not by politicians” It seems that Emmanuel Macron this time made an appropriate statement befitting to a responsible statesman on genocide definition. He seems to have taken an important step in finding the truth by interpreting the definition of genocide in accordance with the provisions of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

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  • Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul, 2022. "Arbitrary And Careless Discourses Degenerate The Legal Definition And Content Of The Term Genocide," OSF Preprints mkxqc, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:mkxqc
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/mkxqc
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