Turkey has decided to keep sanctions on France it imposed after French assembly endorsed a bill making it a crime to deny World War I-era mass killings of Armenians constituted a genocide, government spokesman said on Monday.
Bulent Arınc, who is also deputy prime minister, told reporters following a cabinet meeting on Monday that controversial French bill on the Armenian Genocide was brought to the agenda of the meeting. According to Today’s Zaman, he welcomed the ruling of the French Constitutional Council which said last week that genocide-denial bill is “unconstitutional” and violates freedom of speech.
Shortly after the ruling was announced, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said the Cabinet would meet to consider whether to restart economic, political and military contacts with France that were frozen after the French Parliament passed the law on Jan. 23.
Armenian News
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