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HOLLANDE VOWS TO REPAIR DAMAGED TIES: TURKISH MEDIA
Expatica France
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/hollande-vows-to-repair-damaged-ties-turkish-media_228911.html
May 22 2012
New French President Francois Hollande has vowed to try to repair
damaged ties with Ankara, at a first meeting with his Turkish
counterpart, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.
"Let us re-establish relations between Turkey and France, fix what
has been damaged," Turkish President Abdullah Gul quoted Hollande
as telling him at a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit
in Chicago.
"I asked him if there is a conflict of interest between Turkey and
France. On the contrary, we have common interests in all issues,"
said Gul, quoted by Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper.
Hollande promised to open a "new page" in relations, which hit a low
over French objections to Turkey's bid to join the European Union
and controversial legislation in France seeking to make it a crime
to deny the Armenian genocide.
The law was struck down in February by France's top court on the
grounds that it violated freedom of expression, but triggered protests
from Turkey and and warnings of retaliation.
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in
a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey's former Ottoman Empire. Turkey says
500,000 died and ascribes the toll to fighting and starvation during
World War I.
Expatica France
http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/hollande-vows-to-repair-damaged-ties-turkish-media_228911.html
May 22 2012
New French President Francois Hollande has vowed to try to repair
damaged ties with Ankara, at a first meeting with his Turkish
counterpart, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.
"Let us re-establish relations between Turkey and France, fix what
has been damaged," Turkish President Abdullah Gul quoted Hollande
as telling him at a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit
in Chicago.
"I asked him if there is a conflict of interest between Turkey and
France. On the contrary, we have common interests in all issues,"
said Gul, quoted by Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper.
Hollande promised to open a "new page" in relations, which hit a low
over French objections to Turkey's bid to join the European Union
and controversial legislation in France seeking to make it a crime
to deny the Armenian genocide.
The law was struck down in February by France's top court on the
grounds that it violated freedom of expression, but triggered protests
from Turkey and and warnings of retaliation.
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their forebears were killed in
a 1915-16 genocide by Turkey's former Ottoman Empire. Turkey says
500,000 died and ascribes the toll to fighting and starvation during
World War I.