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    TURKEY CONFIDENT TIES WITH FRANCE WILL IMPROVE

    Emirates 24/7
    May 22 2012
    UAE

    By AP
    Published Tuesday, May 22, 2012

    Turkey's president says he is confident that ties with France will
    improve fast under President Francois Hollande.

    Abdullah Gul met with Hollande late Monday on the sidelines of the
    Nato summit in Chicago and later told Turkish reporters the new French
    president's position was "opposite" to that of Nicolas Sarkozy.

    Sarkozy strongly opposed Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

    Tensions peaked this year when France tried to introduce a law making
    it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
    amounted to genocide. The law was eventually ruled unconstitutional.

    Gul said he told Hollande that the two nations have no conflict of
    interest and therefore no reason to "act like enemies."

    http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/turkey-confident-ties-with-france-will-improve-2012-05-22-1.459828
    He said: "I am sure they will make an assessment and our relations
    will rapidly change."

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