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    Ottawa Citizen, Canada
    December 23, 2011 Friday
    Final Edition


    Turkey; Ties cut with France over genocide law


    Turkey reacted with fury Thursday to a vote by French lawmakers to
    outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, immediately cutting
    military ties and warning of "irreparable damage" to relations. "This
    is politics based on racism, discrimination and xenophobia," thundered
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "From now on we are revising our
    relations with France. There was no genocide committed in our history.
    We do not accept this."

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