Double standards

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a Turkish man was falsely imprisoned after he publicly denied the genocide of Armenians in World War One in Geneva, Switzerland.  That around two million Armenians was killed in a variety of means by the Ottoman authorities and was a direct inspiration to Hitler for the Holocaust of the Jews (Winston Churchill at the time said this was 'an administrative holocaust') was of no consequence to the court - it was upholding the Turkish man's right to free speech.
That's fine and dandy and in a manner of reciprocal appreciation the government of Turkey should repeal the ban on people saying that there was a genocide of Armenians at that time (not to mention all the pogroms beforehand).  The law falls under the jurisdiction of 'insulting Turkishness' but if we're into free speech, an open airing of the facts should prove no problem.
Of course, Turkey will not allow people free speech - it locks up more journalists than Russia - and, from a pragmatic perspective than an irrational Islamophobic one, is one of the major stumbling blocks to its entry into the European Union; that along with its continued occupation of northern Cyprus (an EU member) and treatment of the Kurds as second-class citizens (such ingratitude after Kurdish irregulars did much of the Ottoman dirty work in wiping out so many Armenians).
It is no wonder that the arrested Turkish man was trenchant in his views - the whole Turkish education is skewed towards propaganda.  Japan is often accused of soft-pedalling its atrocities in World War Two and many approved school history books talk of a war of self-defence.  But Turkish extremism in schools would make a nationalist Japanese politician blush.  Here, Turkish children are not only told of the 'righteousness' of the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus, protecting a Turkish minority when tens of thousands of settlers moved in after the invasion with lucrative incentives from Ankara; they are taught that equal numbers of Turks and Armenians died (if they're lucky) or that Armenians were the ones massacring the Turks - in the context, a deliberate lie.  As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, surviving Armenians did indeed take their revenge for the killing of millions of their kinsfolk but it was on a microscopic level compared to the crimes done to their 'nation'.  At the moment, Turkey is moving incrementally away from the norms of democracy and the rule of law, so don't expect changes soon, just as, despite the refugee crisis, Turkey can kiss EU membership goodbye for the foreseeable future.