Tweet
CHP SENDS 'BILL' LETTER TO FRENCH SOCIALISTS
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 13 2012
Turkey
Kılıcdaroglu sent a letter to Hollande, head of the French Socialist
Party.
Turkey's main opposition party has urged the French Socialist Party not
to back the law penalizing the denial of Armenian claims of genocide
which the Senate will debate Jan. 23.
"If the French Parliament insists on voting anti-Turkish and
unconstitutional laws, it would not only seriously affect the image of
France, but also that of the European Union, which would be perceived
as unfair and hostile," Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, leader of the Republican
People's Party (CHP), said in a letter to Francois Hollande, head
of the Socialist Party who is in competition with Nicolas Sarkozy in
the presidential elections.
Kılıcdaroglu also sent letters to Jean-Pierre Bel, Socialist head
of the French Senate, and Martine Aubry, first secretary of the French
Socialist Party.
Hollande's position ahead of Sarkozy in public opinion polls causes
satisfaction and at the same time concerns, as the Socialist Party did
not stand against the controversial bill, Kılıcdaroglu said. The
proposed law violated the French constitutional articles assuring
freedom of expression, he added.
"You will understand without difficulty that the adoption of the
law proposal of Boyer will cause a crisis [between two countries]
unprecedented since the 1921 Ankara Agreement," he said.
Kılıcdaroglu asked Hollande to hear the voice of reason and not
back the bill in the Senate. The move would restore Turkish-French
friendship at the hands of Hollande, he added.
Hurriyet Daily News
Jan 13 2012
Turkey
Kılıcdaroglu sent a letter to Hollande, head of the French Socialist
Party.
Turkey's main opposition party has urged the French Socialist Party not
to back the law penalizing the denial of Armenian claims of genocide
which the Senate will debate Jan. 23.
"If the French Parliament insists on voting anti-Turkish and
unconstitutional laws, it would not only seriously affect the image of
France, but also that of the European Union, which would be perceived
as unfair and hostile," Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, leader of the Republican
People's Party (CHP), said in a letter to Francois Hollande, head
of the Socialist Party who is in competition with Nicolas Sarkozy in
the presidential elections.
Kılıcdaroglu also sent letters to Jean-Pierre Bel, Socialist head
of the French Senate, and Martine Aubry, first secretary of the French
Socialist Party.
Hollande's position ahead of Sarkozy in public opinion polls causes
satisfaction and at the same time concerns, as the Socialist Party did
not stand against the controversial bill, Kılıcdaroglu said. The
proposed law violated the French constitutional articles assuring
freedom of expression, he added.
"You will understand without difficulty that the adoption of the
law proposal of Boyer will cause a crisis [between two countries]
unprecedented since the 1921 Ankara Agreement," he said.
Kılıcdaroglu asked Hollande to hear the voice of reason and not
back the bill in the Senate. The move would restore Turkish-French
friendship at the hands of Hollande, he added.