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TURKEY HALTS PARACHUTE TENDER TO FRENCH FIRM
Hurriyet
Feb 13 2012
Turkey
Turkey's civil aviation association has decided not to buy French
parachutes.
The Turkish Aviation Board (THK) has suspended a parachute tender,
awarded to a French company, the head of THK Osman Yıldırım
said Feb. 11.
"We launched a tender to purchase 150 parachutes some time ago, and
a French company won the tender, but we suspended the tender after
the French Senate adopted a resolution on the denial of Armenian
allegations regarding the incidents of 1915," Yıldırım told an
Anatolia news agency reporter.
Yıldırım said THK would make public the result of the 500,000 Euro
tender if France took a step backward.
The French Senate adopted a law that penalizes the denial of Armenian
allegations regarding the 1915 incidents during the Ottoman Empire
period. Under the law, anyone who denies the Armenian allegations
may be sentenced to one year in prison and a 45,000 euro fine.
On Feb. 7, 77 French senators and 65 parliamentarians applied to
the French Constitutional Council to annul the law. The council is
expected to announce its decision within one month.
From: Baghdasarian
Hurriyet
Feb 13 2012
Turkey
Turkey's civil aviation association has decided not to buy French
parachutes.
The Turkish Aviation Board (THK) has suspended a parachute tender,
awarded to a French company, the head of THK Osman Yıldırım
said Feb. 11.
"We launched a tender to purchase 150 parachutes some time ago, and
a French company won the tender, but we suspended the tender after
the French Senate adopted a resolution on the denial of Armenian
allegations regarding the incidents of 1915," Yıldırım told an
Anatolia news agency reporter.
Yıldırım said THK would make public the result of the 500,000 Euro
tender if France took a step backward.
The French Senate adopted a law that penalizes the denial of Armenian
allegations regarding the 1915 incidents during the Ottoman Empire
period. Under the law, anyone who denies the Armenian allegations
may be sentenced to one year in prison and a 45,000 euro fine.
On Feb. 7, 77 French senators and 65 parliamentarians applied to
the French Constitutional Council to annul the law. The council is
expected to announce its decision within one month.
From: Baghdasarian