AFTER ELF AND L’OREAL, TEFAL THIRD FRENCH COMPANY NAMED IN BOYCOTT

Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Oct 29 2006

ANKARA – Turkish Consumers Union named Tefal as the third company to
be brought under the boycott campaign against a new French company
every week following the French Parliament’s decision on October 12,
2006 concerning the so-called Armenian genocide.

Consumers Union had initiated the boycott campaign with Total (Elf)
petroleum retailer in the first week and brought L’oreal under the
boycott in the following week.

Consumers Union Chair Bulent Deniz called on the Turkish consumers
not to buy products by French company Tefal. Deniz said `From today
to the day that the unfortunate decision by the French Parliament
is withdrawn, we are not buying the products by French Tefal and its
subsidiaries Moulinex and Rowenta.’

Deniz expressed his confidence that the boycott against Tefal would
be supported by the consumers, like the Total and L’oreal boycotts
initiated in the first two weeks, and stressed that the boycott would
be decisively maintained until the legislation that criminalizes the
denial of the so-called Armenian genocide is withdrawn.

If the bill becomes law in France, all Turks and French would have to
accept what the Armenians claim about the past. Turks and Armenians
disagree on the 1915 Events. Turkey says about 2 million Turkish and
other Muslim Ottoman citizens were massacred by the Armenian gangs,
while the Armenians name the Armenian killings as genocide. Armenians
rioted against Istanbul and joined the occupying Russian forces. The
communal clashes and war curcumstances caused a great tragedy at
both sides.