Tweet
TURKEY-FRANCE: ANKARA REVOKES SANCTIONS AGAINST PARIS
ANSA Med
June 21 2012
Italy
(ANSamed) - ANKARA, JUNE 21 - The Turkish government has revoked the
sanctions against France taken after the Paris parliament issued a law
last December against the denial of the Armenian Genocide in 1915,
then dismissed by the constitutional court, Foreign minister Ahmet
Davutoglu has announced.
The abrogation of the sanctions, he told Turkish private TV network
CNN Turk, was ordered by the Islamic Nationalist PM Recep Tayyip
Erdogan after the talk he had this morning in Brazil with the new
French President Francois Hollande, whom he also chose to invite on
an official visit to Ankara.
The meeting seems to mark a tepid renewal of relations between the two
countries after the tensions felt during the presidency of conservative
Nicolas Sarkozy. The sanctions decided by Ankara, which continues to
deny the genocide of 1915, also foresaw the recalling of the Turkish
ambassador in Paris, the suspension of bilateral and international
operations with France and the closure of Turkish ports to French
military ships. Davutoglu has announced that he will be in Paris on
July 5 to meet the new French authorities. "The talk between Erdogan
and Hollande is "a great start"", he said. (ANSAmed).
ANSA Med
June 21 2012
Italy
(ANSamed) - ANKARA, JUNE 21 - The Turkish government has revoked the
sanctions against France taken after the Paris parliament issued a law
last December against the denial of the Armenian Genocide in 1915,
then dismissed by the constitutional court, Foreign minister Ahmet
Davutoglu has announced.
The abrogation of the sanctions, he told Turkish private TV network
CNN Turk, was ordered by the Islamic Nationalist PM Recep Tayyip
Erdogan after the talk he had this morning in Brazil with the new
French President Francois Hollande, whom he also chose to invite on
an official visit to Ankara.
The meeting seems to mark a tepid renewal of relations between the two
countries after the tensions felt during the presidency of conservative
Nicolas Sarkozy. The sanctions decided by Ankara, which continues to
deny the genocide of 1915, also foresaw the recalling of the Turkish
ambassador in Paris, the suspension of bilateral and international
operations with France and the closure of Turkish ports to French
military ships. Davutoglu has announced that he will be in Paris on
July 5 to meet the new French authorities. "The talk between Erdogan
and Hollande is "a great start"", he said. (ANSAmed).