French businesses threatened by Turkish boycott (Les entreprises
francaises s’alarment des menaces de boycott de la Turquie)

Le Monde – France; May 12, 2006

The Franco-Turkish economic community has warned that, if the French
parliament adopts a bill on the Armenian genocide, scheduled for
reading on May 18, it may provoke a boycott of French goods in Turkey,
as well as a possible prohibition on French imports to the country and
the exclusion of French countries from Turkish calls for tender.

A list of more than 400 French brands for boycotting is already
circulating on the Internet as a protest against the bill. If it is
adopted, first in line could be the nuclear group Areva, which is a
candidate to build nuclear power stations in Turkey, and other
companies that deal with the government or armed forces. After that,
there could be a spontaneous boycott by the general public of French
consumer goods, such as the products of Danone or L’Oreal.

Original article by Guillaume Perrier
Abstracted from Le Monde