Turkey decides to cut official contacts with France

Turkey's PM Recep Erdogan has announced that his country was cutting all official contacts and military cooperation with France.

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Thursday, 22.12.2011.

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Turkey's PM Recep Erdogan has announced that his country was cutting all official contacts and military cooperation with France. This came after a vote in the French parliament which criminalized denial that the 1915-17 mass killings of Armenians at the hands of Turks was a genocide. Turkey decides to cut official contacts with France Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey was canceling planned joint military maneuvers and would "limit French military flights". He added that "additional measures could be implemented". For the French bill to become law, it must first be approved by the country's senate. The new legislation specifies that any public denial of the genocide against Armenians - which has been recognized by law - could send offenders to jail up for a year, and cost them EUR 45,000 in fines. Turkey is rejecting the term "genocide" and considers the number of killed Armenians is "inflated", saying also that there were victims on both sides. Turkey accepts that some 500,000 Armenians died, but maintains that they were killed during the fighting and forced deportations to Iraq and Syria, which were also under Ottoman rule at the time. Armenian sources quote the number of 1.5 million of their compatriots that were murdered. France recognizes two genocide: the one perpetrated against Jews in the Second World War, and the Armenian genocide, but previously only the denial of the former was criminalized. Recep Erdogan (file)

Turkey decides to cut official contacts with France

Erdogan said on Thursday that Turkey was canceling planned joint military maneuvers and would "limit French military flights".

He added that "additional measures could be implemented".

For the French bill to become law, it must first be approved by the country's senate. The new legislation specifies that any public denial of the genocide against Armenians - which has been recognized by law - could send offenders to jail up for a year, and cost them EUR 45,000 in fines.

Turkey is rejecting the term "genocide" and considers the number of killed Armenians is "inflated", saying also that there were victims on both sides.

Turkey accepts that some 500,000 Armenians died, but maintains that they were killed during the fighting and forced deportations to Iraq and Syria, which were also under Ottoman rule at the time.

Armenian sources quote the number of 1.5 million of their compatriots that were murdered.

France recognizes two genocide: the one perpetrated against Jews in the Second World War, and the Armenian genocide, but previously only the denial of the former was criminalized.

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