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    CHP SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT'S MEASURES AGAINST FRANCE

    Today's Zaman
    Dec 23 2011
    Turkey

    Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıcdaroğlu, who
    visited Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday, said his
    party was ready to support the government's plans to impose measures
    against France, which on Thursday adopted a resolution to criminalize
    denying that the 1915 deportation of Ottoman Armenians is tantamount
    to genocide.

    Kılıcdaroğlu visited Erdoğan at the Justice and Development Party
    (AK Party) headquarters on Thursday night to wish him well following
    a surgical operation Erdoğan underwent two weeks ago. The CHP leader
    also expressed his party's full support for a series of measures the
    government plans to take against France, whose government has been
    displaying an increasingly anti-Turkish stance over the past few
    months. AK Party Deputy Chairman Omer Celik and Secretary-General
    Haluk İpek were also in attendance during this meeting.

    On Friday, Kılıcdaroğlu reiterated his support for the government's
    policies regarding France. Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate
    Mehmet Fehmi Kubilay, a soldier and teacher who was killed 81 years
    ago in Menemen, İzmir, by a mob opposing the republican reforms --
    Kılıcdaroğlu said that "France will be crushed under this burden." He
    said the resolution was a dark stain on the democratic traditions
    of France. "France should rid itself of this shame," he said at the
    ceremony held in Menemen.

    He recalled his meeting with the prime minister, saying that the
    CHP was ready to lend its complete support to the government's fight
    against the French law.

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