"Editorial: French faux pas
Law could strain Europe-Turkey ties
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, October 19, 2006
Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B8
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Relations between Turkey and Europe were testy enough even before the French National Assembly voted last week to make it a crime to deny that the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish troops during World War I was genocide. Aside from whether French lawmakers are qualified to make that judgment, such a law could fuel tensions between Europe and Islam and further weaken Turkey's flagging bid to join the European Union."
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