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  • Turkey: EU Calls on Turkey to Keep Calm over France's Passing Bill

    Focus News, Bulgaria
    Oct 13 2006

    Milliyet, Turkey: EU Calls on Turkey to Keep Calm over France's
    Passing a Bill on Armenian Genocide


    13 October 2006 | 11:30 | FOCUS News Agency


    Strasbourg/ Ankara. European Parliamentary rapporteur Camiel Eurlings
    called on Turkey to keep calm about the bill on the Armenian
    genocide, which France's Parliament passed, the Turkish newspaper
    Milliyet reports. The MEP said the adoption of the bill would impede
    the efforts at abolishing some restrictions on the freedom of thought
    and the efforts at doing away with tortures in Turkey.
    France's lower house of parliament approved a bill on Thursday making
    it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of
    Ottoman Turks. The bill provoked anger in Turkey, which said the vote
    would damage ties between the two NATO allies and French firms
    operating in Turkey.
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