FRENCH OPEN TURKEY TALKS

The Independent
October 6, 2007 Saturday
London

ANKARA France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, was in Turkey
yesterday seeking to improve relations after the French President
Nicolas Sarkozy voiced his opposition to Turkish membership of the EU.

Turkey is also upset by a French law criminalising the denial of
Armenian genocide, and by what it says is French reluctance to
prosecute or extradite suspected Kurdish rebels wanted by Turkey.