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    Sabah, Turkey
    23 Dec 2011

    Erdošan's response to Sarkozy
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    Prime Minister Tayyip Erdošan accused France of genocide in Algeria
    in the 1940s and 50s, responding to a French parliament vote to make
    it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman
    Turkey was 'so-called genocide'.

    Erdošan also said President Nicolas Sarkozy's father might have direct
    knowledge about French "massacres" in Algeria. "In Algeria from 1945,
    an estimated 15 percent of the population was massacred by the French.
    This is genocide," Erdošan said on live television.
    "If the French President Mr. Sarkozy doesn't know about this genocide
    he should go and ask his father, Paul Sarkozy. "His father served in
    the French Legion in Algeria in the 1940s. I am sure he would have
    lots to tell his son about the French massacres in Algeria," Erdošan
    said.
    Parliamentarians in France's lower house of parliament voted
    overwhelmingly in favour of a draft law outlawing the denial of
    Armenian allegations on Thursday, which the Senate will debate next
    year. If passed, the bill would make it illegal to deny the 1915 mass
    killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks amounted to 'so-called
    genocide'.
    The issue has caused outrage in Turkey, which argues killings took
    place on all sides during a fierce partisan conflict. Erdošan
    condemned the bill shortly after the vote, recalled Ankara's
    ambassador to France for consultations and cancelled all joint
    economic, political and military meetings.
    On Friday, he vowed to take more steps. "We will take gradual measures
    as long as the current (French) attitude is maintained," he said,
    without elaborating. "The vote in the French parliament has shown how
    dangerous racism, discrimination and Islamophobia have become in
    France and Europe."

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