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TURKEY URGES FRENCH POLITICIANS NOT TO EXPLOIT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE
epress.am
10.11.2011 15:15
In the view of upcoming presidential elections, the Ankara government
has urged French politicians not to use Turkey as a tool in their
campaigns following both French President Nicholas Sarkozy and
prominent Socialist candidate Francois Hollande "exploiting Armenian
Genocide claims" last week, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Turkey's Ambassador to Paris Tahsin Burcuoglu expressed Ankara's
uneasiness with Sarkozy's remarks in a meeting with the French
President's foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte on Saturday.
Burcuoglu sent a letter to Hollande urging him to avoid making
Turkey a daily domestic political issue after the prominent socialist
candidate promised backing the draft of a law criminalizing denial
of the Armenian Genocide, the Hurriyet Daily News learned.
"The message we have conveyed does not solely refer to Sarkozy,
but to the entire French political class.
"We have underlined that this kind of rhetoric does not serve anything
other than to ruin our bilateral relations. We want to improve our
relations, but these statements are not helpful to this end," the
senior Turkish diplomat told the paper yesterday.
epress.am
10.11.2011 15:15
In the view of upcoming presidential elections, the Ankara government
has urged French politicians not to use Turkey as a tool in their
campaigns following both French President Nicholas Sarkozy and
prominent Socialist candidate Francois Hollande "exploiting Armenian
Genocide claims" last week, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Turkey's Ambassador to Paris Tahsin Burcuoglu expressed Ankara's
uneasiness with Sarkozy's remarks in a meeting with the French
President's foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte on Saturday.
Burcuoglu sent a letter to Hollande urging him to avoid making
Turkey a daily domestic political issue after the prominent socialist
candidate promised backing the draft of a law criminalizing denial
of the Armenian Genocide, the Hurriyet Daily News learned.
"The message we have conveyed does not solely refer to Sarkozy,
but to the entire French political class.
"We have underlined that this kind of rhetoric does not serve anything
other than to ruin our bilateral relations. We want to improve our
relations, but these statements are not helpful to this end," the
senior Turkish diplomat told the paper yesterday.