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7DAYS, United Arab Emirates
May 14 2006
Armenian genocide threat
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened France with trade
sanctions if it adopts a bill making it illegal to deny that the
1915-1917 massacre of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, a Turkish
newspaper said yesterday.
`Patience has its limits. We do not have hatred (towards France) but
we will impose our sanctions,' the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted
Erdogan as saying at a summit of Muslim countries on the Indonesian
island of Bali.
French lawmakers were due to consider on Thursday a bill from the
opposition Socialists which would make anyone denying the existence
of the Armenian genocide liable to a five-year jail term and $57,000
fine.
French MPs should be `particularly sensitive' to the issue of
possible sanctions since France is the number one investor in Turkey,
Erdogan said.
May 14 2006
Armenian genocide threat
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened France with trade
sanctions if it adopts a bill making it illegal to deny that the
1915-1917 massacre of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, a Turkish
newspaper said yesterday.
`Patience has its limits. We do not have hatred (towards France) but
we will impose our sanctions,' the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet quoted
Erdogan as saying at a summit of Muslim countries on the Indonesian
island of Bali.
French lawmakers were due to consider on Thursday a bill from the
opposition Socialists which would make anyone denying the existence
of the Armenian genocide liable to a five-year jail term and $57,000
fine.
French MPs should be `particularly sensitive' to the issue of
possible sanctions since France is the number one investor in Turkey,
Erdogan said.