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Jan 27 2012
France Should Step Back From Genocide Bill "Mistake" - Turkey Min
JANUARY 27, 2012, 6:51 A.M. ET
ISTANBUL (Dow Jones)--Turkey's economy minister Zafer Caglayan said
Friday that France should step back from ratifying a so-called
Genocide bill that would make it a crime to deny that the massacre of
Armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.
Speaking at a meeting with French companies in Ankara, Caglayan said
that the bill didn't reflect the views of French citizens or French
business.
The bill, passed on Monday by the French senate, must now be signed
into law by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Turkish officials hope that dissenting senators can gather 60
signatures to appeal the decision to the French constitutional court.
-By Joe Parkinson, Dow Jones Newswires
Jan 27 2012
France Should Step Back From Genocide Bill "Mistake" - Turkey Min
JANUARY 27, 2012, 6:51 A.M. ET
ISTANBUL (Dow Jones)--Turkey's economy minister Zafer Caglayan said
Friday that France should step back from ratifying a so-called
Genocide bill that would make it a crime to deny that the massacre of
Armenians at the end of the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide.
Speaking at a meeting with French companies in Ankara, Caglayan said
that the bill didn't reflect the views of French citizens or French
business.
The bill, passed on Monday by the French senate, must now be signed
into law by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Turkish officials hope that dissenting senators can gather 60
signatures to appeal the decision to the French constitutional court.
-By Joe Parkinson, Dow Jones Newswires