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    Anatolian Times, Turkey
    May 14 2006

    Turkish Parliamentary Delegation Meets French National Assembly
    Speaker


    PARIS - A Turkish parliamentary delegation met on Wednesday French
    National Assembly Speaker Jean-Louis Debre.
    Turkish Parliamentary delegation, comprising Mehmet Dulger and Musa
    Sivacioglu from Justice & Development Party (AKP); and Onur Oymen and
    Gulsun Bilgehan Toker from the main opposition Republican People`s
    Party (CHP), is currently in Paris to lobby for rejection or
    withdrawal of the bill which would make ``the denial`` of the
    so-called Armenian genocide a crime.

    Following their meeting with Debre, the Turkish delegation met French
    parliament foreign affairs commission chairman Edouard Balladur.

    Speaking to A.A correspondent following the meetings, CHP MP Onur
    Oymen said, ``we have explained the harsh reaction of the Turkish
    people. We have attracted the attention to the calls in Turkey to
    boycott French goods. We had the opportunity to convey them that
    relations would be harmed in case the bill becomes a law.``

    Meetings of the Turkish delegation will continue on Thursday.

    Turkish parliamentarians will make references to previous statements
    of the French executives and historians that the ``parliaments can
    not write history and the history should be left to historians`` and
    want French parliamentarians to be consistent with their previous
    statements.

    Proposal of the Socialist Party will be discussed on May 18th. The
    bill should be approved in the senate in order to become a law.
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