Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Turkey and France step up row on ‘genocide’ - FT.com

Turkey and France step up row on ‘genocide’

By Hugh Carnegy in Paris and Daniel Dombey in Istanbul

France has warned Turkey against any commercial reprisals in an escalating dispute over a French bid to make it a crime to deny that a genocide of Armenians took place in the final days of the Ottoman Empire almost a century ago.

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