Turkey: Fallout from French-Turkish Spat Over Genocide Bill Could be Widespread
December 22, 2011 - 2:19pm, by Yigal Schleifer
Add France to the countries that Turkey now has strained relations with. Following a successful vote today in France's lower house of Parliament which made it a crime to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915 was a genocide, Ankara has recalled its ambassador in Paris and announced a set of "sanctions" against the French. The move only worsens what had been an increasingly tense French-Turkish relationship. From Reuters:
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