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    ERDOGAN REITERATES BOYCOTT THREATS TO FRANCE

    Armenpress
    May 16 2006

    ANKARA, MAY 16, ARMENPRESS: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    threatened France with trade sanctions if it adopts a bill making it
    illegal to deny that the 1915-17 massacre of Armenians in Turkey was
    "genocide," AFP said quoting from a Turkish newspaper.

    "Patience has its limits. We do not have hatred (toward France) but
    we will impose our sanctions," the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted
    Turkey's prime minister as saying at a summit of Muslim countries on
    the Indonesian island of Bali. French lawmakers are due to consider
    next week 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 a 45,000-euro ($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. "There will possibly be problems."
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