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    TURKISH MINISTER ACCUSES FRANCE OF "IMPERIALISTIC PLANS"

    News.Az
    Thu 29 December 2011

    Turkey's foreign minister has accused the French parliament of
    "imperialistic plans" based on the suffering of others.

    Ahmet Davutoglu made the remarks at a conference "From Balkan War
    to Balkan Peace: Turkish Foreign Policy on its 100th Anniversary"
    at Trakya University in the northwestern province of Edirne, Turkey's
    semi-official Anadolu news agency reported.

    He was speaking after the lower house of the French parliament passed
    a bill that will make it a crime in France to deny that the mass
    killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to "genocide". The bill has
    still to be discussed in the French Senate next year.

    "Every nation thinks that its agony is unique, however we can
    understand the agonies of all nations because we felt the biggest
    agony," Davutoglu told a

    Davutoglu said the French parliament should not make imperialistic
    plans on the agonies of other people, and drew attention to the
    difference in the leadership of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and
    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey.

    "One of them abandoned the place he was born, and burst into tears
    whenever he heard a Thracian song. He could incite his nation,
    as the founder of a new nation state, and could make his nation
    remember their agonies by telling them that 'the Greeks occupied the
    territories'. However, he did not say this, but extended his hand to
    [Greek leader] Venizelos because a leader like Ataturk was the outcome
    of a blend of 10 centuries," Davutoglu said.

    Davutoglu also said, "However, I am not only saying this for Sarkozy,
    but French leaders have reached where they are today by making other
    nations suffer, and now they are trying to build a new history on
    the agonies of others."

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