Turkey will watch France's steps to see which direction they go as far as the renewed promise of Paris to draft a new legislation to penalize the denial of the Ottoman-era genocide of Armenians is concerned, according to officials in Ankara.
Over the weekend French President Francois Hollande reportedly reassured members of the influential Armenian community of France that he remained committed to his campaign pledge to have the legislation passed despite controversial comments made earlier by his foreign minister.
At a joint press conference with his visiting Turkish counterpart last Thursday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius indicated that the Constitutional Council's ruling revoking the related law passed under the previous administration of President Nicolas Sarkozy would make it impossible to take up the issue again.
Armenian News
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