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    FRANCE: ARMENIAN VOTE, TURKS URGED TO BOYCOTT FRENCH GOODS

    ANSAmed
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/france/2011/12/23/visualizza_new.html_17534738.html
    Dec 23 2011
    Italy

    (ANSAmed) - ANKARA, DECEMBER 23 - Under the banner "Minister incites
    Turks to boycott French goods", Turkish daily Hurriyet reports that
    Turkey's EU minister said people would react to France's Armenian
    genocide denial bill. "We saw in the past for the case of Italy, those
    who emptied wine onto (the streets) and burned coats and ties were
    this country's people. There is no need for suggestion, this nation's
    people decide on their own," EU Minister Egemen Bagis told reporters
    yesterday. Bagis said Turks would react by not consuming French goods
    in response to the controversial bill. It was announced last night
    that Ankara is recalling its ambassador and freezing political visits
    as well as joint military projects, including exercises. Ankara will
    also cancel permission for French military planes to land and warships
    to dock in Turkey as a result of the bill.

    Meanwhile, Turkish Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat
    Ergun said Turkey would probably not assume an embargo policy against
    France nor violate international agreements.

    However, France should take into consideration the uneasiness that
    would emerge in Turkish society, Ergun said. Bulent Eczacibasi,
    president of the board of directors of Eczacibasi Holding, said any
    boycott against the French firms in Turkey would harm the Turkish
    economy. "It would not be wise to punish those companies working in
    Turkey; by doing that we will hurt ourselves. We should be calm and
    our steps should be outcome-oriented. We should avoid taking steps
    with anger that could be detrimental to ourselves," he said. In
    a last warning to France over the Armenian genocide denial bill,
    Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek said bilateral ties were under threat of
    "irreparable damage" and urged French lawmakers to use "common sense".

    The planned bill has united Turkey's ruling and opposition parties
    in Parliament, which in a joint declaration denounced it as a "grave,
    unacceptable and historic mistake".

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