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Thursday, October 12, 2006

IOL: Turkish press gets harsh with France

"Turkish press gets harsh with France

October 12 2006 at 08:10PM

Ankara - Turkish press on Thursday harshly criticised France ahead of a vote on a bill on the World War I massacres of Armenians, with one newspaper ridiculing the draft as 'stupid'.

In a mockery of the famous motto of the French revolution, the mass-circulation Hurriyet ran the following headline in French:

'Liberty, equality and stupidity'."

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