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TURKEY IS RECALLING AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
Global News
http://www.globalnews.ca/turkey+is+recalling+ambassador+to+france+over+arme nian+genocide+bill/6442547261/story.html
Dec 22 2011
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run TV says the country is recalling
its ambassador to France in retaliation fore a vote in French
Parliament making it a crime to deny the WWI-era mass killings of
Armenians amounts to genocide.
The bill was passed Thursday in France's lower house. It still must
be approved in the Senate.
Turkey vehemently rejects the term "genocide" to describe the killings
and had campaigned to get France to abandon the legislation.
TRT television says ambassador Tahsin Burcuoglu would be withdrawn.
Foreign Ministry officials would not immediately confirm the report,
saying an announcement would be made by the prime minister.
Canadian Press
From: Baghdasarian
Global News
http://www.globalnews.ca/turkey+is+recalling+ambassador+to+france+over+arme nian+genocide+bill/6442547261/story.html
Dec 22 2011
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run TV says the country is recalling
its ambassador to France in retaliation fore a vote in French
Parliament making it a crime to deny the WWI-era mass killings of
Armenians amounts to genocide.
The bill was passed Thursday in France's lower house. It still must
be approved in the Senate.
Turkey vehemently rejects the term "genocide" to describe the killings
and had campaigned to get France to abandon the legislation.
TRT television says ambassador Tahsin Burcuoglu would be withdrawn.
Foreign Ministry officials would not immediately confirm the report,
saying an announcement would be made by the prime minister.
Canadian Press
From: Baghdasarian