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    Anadolu Agency (AA), Turkey
    December 27, 2011 Tuesday


    Turkey will only speak with documents

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    Turkey's prime minister underlined on Tuesday necessity of finding
    permanent solutions to problems.

    Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said instant reactions and temporary
    solutions would not bear any result.

    "We have to think multi-dimensionally and with a long-term perspective
    and find robust, effective and permanent solutions," Erdogan said
    during a meeting in Ankara's Golbasi town.

    Erdogan's remarks came after the lower house of the French parliament
    adopted a resolution last week that criminalized denial of Armenian
    allegations regarding the incidents of 1915.

    "We have to make use of history and science to deal with these
    allegations that are tried to be turned in an anti-Turkey campaign by
    some countries, instead of populist and argumentative discourses and
    instant reactions," Erdogan said.

    Erdogan said Turkey would only speak with documents, information and
    with the help of archives and science against unjust, ill-minded,
    racist and discriminative campaigns.

    "I request our scientists, scholars, researches and universities to
    give priority to studies on our near future," Erdogan said.

    Erdogan also said Turkey was reading its history well and re-building
    today and future with the strength, courage and self-esteem it got
    from its history.

    The lower house of the French parliament adopted on Thursday a
    resolution that criminalizes rejection of Armenian allegations
    pertaining to the incidents of 1915. Only 70 out of 577
    parliamentarians joined the voting of the resolution which was adopted
    with majority of votes.

    The resolution envisages "one-year prison term and 45,000 Euro fine
    for those who deny genocide recognized by French laws." French
    Parliament had recognized so-called Armenian genocide in 1915 on
    January 29, 2001.

    The draft criminalizing the rejection of Armenian allegations had
    first been approved in 2006, but it could not become a law as French
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    its presentation to Senate.

    Now, the senate's approval is necessary to make the resolution a law.

    Turkey strongly opposes the issue of the incidents of 1915 being used
    as a tool in French politics. Many believe that French President
    Sarkozy supports the Armenian resolution in order to garner support
    from France's Armenian population that number around 500,000.

    France will hold the first round of next year's presidential election
    on April 22 and the second round run-off on May 6. Sarkozy is running
    for a second term.

    If the resolution is not adopted at the senate till February 22, 2012
    when the parliament and senate will recess for presidential elections,
    it will be invalid.

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