Turkey: Leading Turkish Armenians Oppose France's Genocide Bill
With the French parliament set to vote tomorrow on a bill that would allow for the punishment of anyone who denies that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by the Ottomans was a genocide, relations...
View ArticleTurkey: Fallout from French-Turkish Spat Over Genocide Bill Could be Widespread
Add France to the countries that Turkey now has strained relations with. Following a successful vote today in France's lower house of Parliament which made it a crime to deny that the mass killing of...
View ArticleTurkey: Relations With France Set to Plummet After Passing of Genocide Bill
Despite warnings from Ankara that such a move would fundamentally undermine Turkish-French relations, France's Senate today passed a bill that would criminalize the denial of any genocide, including...
View ArticleTurkey: Turkish-French Tensions Enter the Kitchen
Despite threats to punish France for its parliament's recent passing of a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman state in 1915 was a genocide, Ankara...
View ArticleTurkish-French Relations Dodge a Bullet, For Now
With yesterday's ruling by France's Constitutional Council invalidating a recently passed law that would have criminalized the denial of the Armenian genocide, Ankara and Paris managed to avoid a...
View ArticleTurkey: In French Election, Ankara Rooting for Sarkozy Rival
As the French presidential election heads into a run-off, it's probably not surprising that Ankara is quietly but emphatically rooting for Socialist candidate Francois Hollande to defeat the incumbent...
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