"Turkey Warns France Not to Make Denial of Armenian Genocide a Criminal Act
By VOA News
03 May 2006
Turkey has warned France that ties between the two countries will suffer what it called 'irreparable damage' if French lawmakers approve a measure making denial of the Armenian genocide 90 years ago a criminal offense.
A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman, Namik Tan, told reporters in Ankara his country's views on the issue are being conveyed to French officials. The proposed bill would provide fines and imprisonment for denying that Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were victims of genocide during World War One"
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