Turkiye
July 21 2004

ERDOGAN MEETS WITH FRENCH PARLIAMENTARI8ANS, DISCUSSES TURKEY’S EU
BID

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday met with members of the
French Parliament’s Foreign Relations Commission to seek their
support for Turkey’s European Union membership bid. During their
meeting, Erdogan said that the Turkish and French peoples had had
friendly relations since the days of the Ottoman Empire. Asked about
the so-called Armenian genocide, Erdogan said that the issue was up
to the historians. Later, meeting with French businessmen, the
premier stressed that Turkey needed foreign capital and so urged
French businessmen to make investments. /Turkiye/