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TURKEY URGES FRANCE ON 'GENOCIDE PENALTY'
Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 12 2011
Turkey
A fresh legislative attempt in the French Parliament aiming at
punishing those who refuse to recognize 1915 incidents as genocide
caused Turkey's reaction against France whose bilateral ties recently
showed improvement.
"At a moment when Turkey and France have entered into a process
in which they could increase their cooperation at bilateral and
international level, we hope no unrecoverable steps will be taken,"
the Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend.
Numerous attempts to penalize the denial of the Armenian genocide
claims have failed in France since the early 2000s after the country
had officially recognized the 1915 incidents as genocide. As
the presidential elections loom in France, both the ruling and
oppositional parties revisit these efforts to gain the support of
Armenian diaspora in France. A draft law in this has been approved
in a French parliamentary commission Dec. 7.
"The French administration is well aware of how sensitive this issue
is to us," said the Foreign Ministry statement. The statement also
called on France to contribute to the solution of this problem between
Turkey and France through dialogue.
Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 12 2011
Turkey
A fresh legislative attempt in the French Parliament aiming at
punishing those who refuse to recognize 1915 incidents as genocide
caused Turkey's reaction against France whose bilateral ties recently
showed improvement.
"At a moment when Turkey and France have entered into a process
in which they could increase their cooperation at bilateral and
international level, we hope no unrecoverable steps will be taken,"
the Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend.
Numerous attempts to penalize the denial of the Armenian genocide
claims have failed in France since the early 2000s after the country
had officially recognized the 1915 incidents as genocide. As
the presidential elections loom in France, both the ruling and
oppositional parties revisit these efforts to gain the support of
Armenian diaspora in France. A draft law in this has been approved
in a French parliamentary commission Dec. 7.
"The French administration is well aware of how sensitive this issue
is to us," said the Foreign Ministry statement. The statement also
called on France to contribute to the solution of this problem between
Turkey and France through dialogue.