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    FRENCH FIRM WINS DIGITAL PASSPORT BID

    Hurriyet Daily News
    Jan 28 2012
    Turkey

    France's President Sarkozy (L) visits a biometric passport office in
    Paris. REUTERS photo A French firm won Turkey's electronic passport
    tender Dec. 22, 2011, just two days after the French Parliament
    ratified the Armenian genocide draft law, according to daily
    Hurriyet. The French state owns an 8 percent stake in the firm.

    French Parliament ratified Dec. 20, 2011, the Armenian genocide
    draft law. The day after the passing of the draft law, Turkey's Prime
    Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to stop French companies benefiting
    from state tenders, adding that they would act accordingly for both
    existing and future contracts that the French were entitled to.

    The result of the electronic passport tender was announced Jan. 12,
    according to daily Zaman, adding that Gemalto, the winning French
    company, will charge 7.7 million euros for the 5 million chips to be
    integrated into passport covers.

    It was proved at an international conference that the system Gemalto
    developed for passport chips was not safe, said daily Zaman. If appeals
    lodged against the tender do not result in a change, a contract will
    be signed with the French firm, it said.

    The news comes as the Turkish government considers a policy of altered
    relations with France after the French Senate recently approved the
    draft law penalizing denial of Armenian genocide.

    During the last years of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces reportedly
    deported or killed hundreds of thousands of Armenians living throughout
    Anatolia, based on the grounds that in their struggle for independence
    some Armenian groups were cooperating with the imperial powers that
    were at war with the Ottomans.

    Armenians and people around the world have defined these events
    as genocide.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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