EU RECEIVES LAST WARNING FROM ANKARA ON FRENCH GENOCIDE BILL
Focus News, Bulgaria
Oct 12 2006
Ankara. The agenda in Ankara is focused on the debates and the voting
at the French parliament today on the Armenian genocide bill, online
edition of Turkish newspaper Sabah reads.
The messages sent to the European capitals stress on the thesis that
‘the Turkish people will take this as an enemy act’. It is also
stressed that ‘this initiative on the part of France, which is one
of EU’s locomotives, will further reduce the trust of the Turkish
community in the bloc and this will become the reason for the EU to
lose Turkey’.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry implied that if the bill is adopted the
dissatisfaction and criticism in Turkey ‘might come out of hand’.
Diplomatic sources point out that the reaction towards France will
be defined one step at a time depending on how the situation develops.
If the bill is adopted at first all the contacts between the two
countries will be severed and the bilateral relations will be reduced
to a ‘minimal level’.
Among the measures that ‘will be taken in time’ will be France’s
non-admission to take part in the bid on the construction of the
first nuclear power plant in Turkey, Sabah notes.