SPEAKER ARINC: CHIRAC’S APOLOGY WAS NOT GENUINE

Hurriyet, Turkey
Oct 17 2006

Bulent Arinc, the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, has said that
he does not think President Jacques Chirac’s apologetic phone call
to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the French
Parliament’s acceptance of the "genocide denial" bill was "genuine."

Arinc also asserted that it was no coincidence that the Armenian terror
group ASALA was most active in France. The Speaker’s comments came
yesterday at a parliamentary meeting in Ankara. Arinc also reserved
words for the upcoming 2007 presidential elections in Turkey:

"Do not listen to those who want to foment chaos and disorder in our
country as the presidential elections draw nearer. Don’t pay attention
to those who want to scare you by intoning ‘The country is being sold.’