FRENCH GOODS WILL FACE BOYCOTT IF ARMENIAN BILL ADOPTED
By Cihan News Agency
Zaman, Turkey
Oct 11 2006
Turkish business chambers and consumer associations have called for
a boycott of French products if the controversial Armenian draft bill
is passed in the French Parliament.
Turkish consumer associations declared that if the bill is passed,
they will put one French product on their boycott list every week.
Zafer Caglayan, chairman of Ankara Chamber of Industry, announced that
that he will say "There is no Armenian genocide" in his scheduled
speech to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Oct. 12,
when the controversial bill is debated in the French National Assembly.
Caglayan said he would be the first penalized by the bill, adding that
obtaining a visa from Turkey should be as hard for French nationals
to get as much it is for Turks traveling to France.
The Turkish military has also joined the growing protests against
France. Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said that Turkey
would cut military ties with France if the bill was adopted.
The Turkish Parliament will discuss a "counter" bill on Wednesday
calling for penalties for those who deny the killings of Algerians
under French colonial rule , a day before the French Parliament’s
deliberation on the much-debated Armenian draft bill, which would
make denying the so-called Armenian genocide punishable by up to five
years in prison and a fine of 45,000 Euros.
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