"French vote on Armenian genocide barely passes
EMMANUEL GEORGES-PICOT
Associated Press
PARIS — Infuriating Turkey, a thin turnout of French legislators approved a bill Thursday that would make it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during the First World War era amounted to genocide.
In Ankara, angry Turks threw eggs at the French Embassy amid growing calls to boycott French goods, although the bill could face an impossible struggle to become law — or even make it to the upper house for further discussion.
“No one should harbour the conviction that Turkey will take this lightly,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.
The bill passed 106-19, but the majority of the 557 legislators in France's lower house did not take part in the vote."
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