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TURKEY, FRANCE SPAT OVER 'GENOCIDE' BILL
The Nation
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/22-Dec-2011/Turkey-France-spat-over-genocide-bill
Dec 22 2011
Pakistan
PARIS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Relations between France and rising regional
power Turkey are likely to nose-dive after a vote in the French
parliament on Thursday that would make it a crime to deny that the
1915 mass killing of Armenians was genocide.
Faced with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's open hostility to
Turkey's all-but stagnant bid to join the European Union, and buoyed
by a fast-growing economy, Ankara has little to lose by picking a
political fight with Paris.
The Nation
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/22-Dec-2011/Turkey-France-spat-over-genocide-bill
Dec 22 2011
Pakistan
PARIS/ANKARA (Reuters) - Relations between France and rising regional
power Turkey are likely to nose-dive after a vote in the French
parliament on Thursday that would make it a crime to deny that the
1915 mass killing of Armenians was genocide.
Faced with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's open hostility to
Turkey's all-but stagnant bid to join the European Union, and buoyed
by a fast-growing economy, Ankara has little to lose by picking a
political fight with Paris.