Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Armenian genocide threat

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Armenian genocide threat

    7DAYS, United Arab Emirates
    May 14 2006

    Armenian genocide threat



    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened France with trade
    sanctions if it adopts a bill making it illegal to deny that the
    1915-1917 massacre of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, a Turkish
    newspaper said yesterday.

    `Patience has its limits. We do not have hatred (towards France) but
    we will impose our sanctions,' the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted
    Erdogan as saying at a summit of Muslim countries on the Indonesian
    island of Bali.

    French lawmakers were due to consider on Thursday a bill from the
    opposition Socialists which would make anyone denying the existence
    of the Armenian genocide liable to a five-year jail term and $57,000
    fine.

    French MPs should be `particularly sensitive' to the issue of
    possible sanctions since France is the number one investor in Turkey,
    Erdogan said.
Working...
X