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The Daily Star, Lebanon
Dec 17 2011
Turkey attacks France over genocide bill
December 17, 2011 03:21 PM
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
sharply criticized France for plans to make it a crime to deny that a
mass killing of Armenians at the time of World War I was genocide.
Erdogan said Saturday France's Parliament should investigate its own
"dirty history," saying the country was responsible for thousands of
deaths in Algeria and Rwanda.
Turkey rejects the term genocide to describe the mass killings of
Armenians by Ottoman Turks as their Empire collapsed more than 90
years ago.
The lower house of the French Parliament will debate on Dec. 22 a
proposal that would put denying the Armenian genocide on a par with
Holocaust denial.
Erdogan has warned of "grave consequences" to bilateral relations if
the bill is adopted while a Turkish diplomat has said the ambassador
would be recalled.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Dec-17/157187-turkey-attacks-france-over-genocide-bill.ashx#axzz1gpWmbIcp
Dec 17 2011
Turkey attacks France over genocide bill
December 17, 2011 03:21 PM
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
sharply criticized France for plans to make it a crime to deny that a
mass killing of Armenians at the time of World War I was genocide.
Erdogan said Saturday France's Parliament should investigate its own
"dirty history," saying the country was responsible for thousands of
deaths in Algeria and Rwanda.
Turkey rejects the term genocide to describe the mass killings of
Armenians by Ottoman Turks as their Empire collapsed more than 90
years ago.
The lower house of the French Parliament will debate on Dec. 22 a
proposal that would put denying the Armenian genocide on a par with
Holocaust denial.
Erdogan has warned of "grave consequences" to bilateral relations if
the bill is adopted while a Turkish diplomat has said the ambassador
would be recalled.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Dec-17/157187-turkey-attacks-france-over-genocide-bill.ashx#axzz1gpWmbIcp