"France says rows must not hurt Turkey economic ties
By Selcuk Gokoluk
ANKARA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Disputes between Ankara and Paris over Armenian genocide claims and Turkey's bid to join the European Union should not be allowed to hurt business ties, France's foreign trade minister said on Tuesday.
France's lower house of parliament infuriated the Turks in 2006 by backing a bill that would make it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One amounted to genocide. France's Senate never ratified the bill.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has also upset Turkey by opposing the large Muslim but secular nation's EU entry bid."
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