‘FRANCE HAS TO BE RECONCILED TO LOSING TURKEY’

AZG Armenian Daily #191, 07/10/2006

Turkey

Spokesperson for the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Namik Tan, at a weekly
meeting with journalists yesterday said that once the French Parliament
adopts the draft bill penalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide,
France will have to be reconciled to the fact of losing Turkey. The
draft bill is to be discussed on October 12. This threatening rhetoric
together with futile visit of Turkish delegation to Paris last week
display that official Ankara’s concerns about adoption of the bill
are very serious.