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TURKEY URGED TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT
The Voice of Russia
Dec 23 2011
Speaking in Prague Friday after attending the state funeral of the
first post-Communist Czech President Vaclav Havel, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy said Turkey is a great and proud country which can
be expected to respect foreign opinion and exercise restraint in
reacting to it.
Turkey had recalled its Ambassador from France after the Lower House
of the French Parliament passed a bill to make it a criminal offence
to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
almost 100 years ago amounted to genocide. Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had also accused Mr Sarkozy of whipping up hatred
towards the Turks and other Muslims.
Historians say the 1915 slaughter of Turkey's ethnic Armenians claimed
1.5 million lives.
The Voice of Russia
Dec 23 2011
Speaking in Prague Friday after attending the state funeral of the
first post-Communist Czech President Vaclav Havel, French President
Nicolas Sarkozy said Turkey is a great and proud country which can
be expected to respect foreign opinion and exercise restraint in
reacting to it.
Turkey had recalled its Ambassador from France after the Lower House
of the French Parliament passed a bill to make it a criminal offence
to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
almost 100 years ago amounted to genocide. Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had also accused Mr Sarkozy of whipping up hatred
towards the Turks and other Muslims.
Historians say the 1915 slaughter of Turkey's ethnic Armenians claimed
1.5 million lives.