Turkey is recalling its ambassador from France in response to the decision of lawmakers in Paris to pass a bill that outlaws genocide denial, including the mass killing of Armenians, by Ottoman Turks in 1915. If approved by the Senate, the punishment for offenders could result in a year in prison...
Turkey has reacted with fury to a vote by French lawmakers to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, immediately cutting military ties and warning of "irreparable damage" to relations. "This is politics based on racism, discrimination and xenophobia," thundered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip E...
Turkey has vowed to retaliate, after the French Senate approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915, was genocide. Ankara has already suspended military, political and economic ties with Paris.Both houses of the French parliament have pass...
www.euronews.net The fallout from France's controversial genocide bill continues, with more protests taking place across Turkey, including one organised by a nationalist group outside the French embassy in Istanbul. The crowd chanted anti-Europe slogans and urged French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, says a controversial genocide bill passed by the French parliament is "racist". The proposed law makes it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. Turkey says relations between the countries will be serious...
Turkey furiously denounced the move by France's senate of passing a bill outlawing the denial of the Armenian genocide in 1915, with Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin saying it was "a great injustice and shows a total lack of respect for Turkey." "We strongly condemn this decision which is... an ex...
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www.euronews.net Racist, discriminatory and xenophobic. That is how Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the French parliamentary vote making it a crime to deny genocide. Speaking alongside visiting Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, he said it had opened wounds with Par...
France's Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it illegal to deny as genocide the mass killings of Armenians during Turkey's Ottoman era. Interview with Brent Budowsky, columnist with The Hill newspaper
www.euronews.net Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Paris in protest at France's first steps towards criminalising the denial of genocide. Under French law, the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 is genocide, something rejected by Turkey and French-Turks protesting outside th...
www.euronews.net A deterioration of the relationship between Turkey and France over the French genocide bill may be political and economic. Turkey is France's sixth largest export market, and even if there are no official sanctions, ordinary Turks could boycott French goods on their own. One such...
France has defied a threat of sanctions from Turkey, when French lawmakers voted to ban the denial of the Armenian genocide. How will this impact the relationship between France and Turkey? Who is a key NATO ally, future host of the missile shield system, and one of Europe's fastest growing econo...
