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TURKEY IS WAITING, WHILE COLLECTING SIGNATURES CONTINUES IN FRENCH SENATE
epress.am
01.31.2012
There are positive developments on collecting the 60 signatures
required to challenge the law recently approved by the French Senate
that criminalizes denial of genocide (including the Armenian Genocide),
a Turkish politician said, although the sufficient number had not
yet been reached, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
"There are positive developments on the issue of signatures, but all
is not clear yet," said Omer Celik, deputy chair of the Justice and
Development Party (AKP), speaking in a TV broadcast yesterday.
Turkey is currently waiting for the conclusion of the legal process
in France. If the law is adopted, Ankara will implement ready-prepared
sanctions against France, Celik said.
On the other hand, the European Union has expressed hope on
reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia despite the current
Franco-Turkish spat.
"The EU supports good neighborly relations between states. We hope
Turkey and Armenia pass over these difficulties," Jean-Maurice Ripert,
new head of the European Union Delegation to Turkey, told reporters
after meeting with Turkey's EU Minister Egemen BagıÅ~_ yesterday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said last week he was
disappointed by the silence of the European Union on the matter. If
any candidate country to the EU had implemented such a law, the union
would have raised the issue, included it in its progress reports,
and made its removal a precondition of entry, he said, adding that
Turkey expected the EU to impose sanctions on France.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also claimed Turkey was
keeping up its efforts for the French senators who objected to the
denial law to apply to the Constitutional Council.
epress.am
01.31.2012
There are positive developments on collecting the 60 signatures
required to challenge the law recently approved by the French Senate
that criminalizes denial of genocide (including the Armenian Genocide),
a Turkish politician said, although the sufficient number had not
yet been reached, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
"There are positive developments on the issue of signatures, but all
is not clear yet," said Omer Celik, deputy chair of the Justice and
Development Party (AKP), speaking in a TV broadcast yesterday.
Turkey is currently waiting for the conclusion of the legal process
in France. If the law is adopted, Ankara will implement ready-prepared
sanctions against France, Celik said.
On the other hand, the European Union has expressed hope on
reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia despite the current
Franco-Turkish spat.
"The EU supports good neighborly relations between states. We hope
Turkey and Armenia pass over these difficulties," Jean-Maurice Ripert,
new head of the European Union Delegation to Turkey, told reporters
after meeting with Turkey's EU Minister Egemen BagıÅ~_ yesterday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said last week he was
disappointed by the silence of the European Union on the matter. If
any candidate country to the EU had implemented such a law, the union
would have raised the issue, included it in its progress reports,
and made its removal a precondition of entry, he said, adding that
Turkey expected the EU to impose sanctions on France.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also claimed Turkey was
keeping up its efforts for the French senators who objected to the
denial law to apply to the Constitutional Council.