SCANDAL BETWEEN FRANCE AND TURKEY EXPANDS

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.11.2006 16:36 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul announced on late
Thursday that France hasn’t been officially invited to a defense
industry fair over the French Parliament’s passage of an Armenian bill
last month, introducing punishments to those who question genocide
claims. Gonul stated that Ankara gave a notice to French companies,
instead of invitations, and added, "The French defense minister is
a valuable government member. But he has not been formally invited
here. We sent invitations to other countries."

In related news, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry canceled
the invitation of the a French music company to perform a remembrance
ceremony for Turkish poet and Sufi mystic Mevlana Rumi, reports The
New Anatolian.