TURKEY CEASES MILITARY RELATIONS WITH FRANCE
By Petros Keshishian

AZG Armenian Daily #221, 18/11/2006

Turkey

General Ilqer Bashbug, commander of Turkish land
forces, stated that his country ahs ceased the
military relations with France , as well as bilateral
visits of high ranked military officials.

"CNN-Turk" TV informed that the given step taken by
Ankara is conditioned by the the adoption of the bill
in the France Senate, which envisages criminal
punishment for denial of the Armenian Genocide.

After the adoption of the document, Ankara threatened
Paris with economic and political sanctions.

On September 28, by special decree, the members of the
European Parliament obliged Turkey to recognize the
Armenian genocide, if the latter want to become a full
fledged EU member state. Then Turkey stated that it
considers that unacceptable to impose additional
preconditions for the membership.

Armenia demands to acknowledge that 1,5 million of
Armenians were killed in the Western Armenian
conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1917.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress