French president François Hollande confirmed Saturday that he plans to push a new law that would criminalise the denial of the 1915-1916 Armenian genocide by Ottoman Turkey. A French court ruled Thursday the law was unconstitutional. French President Francois Hollande confirmed Saturday plans for a new law criminalising denial of the Armenian genocide with representatives of the Armenian community, the Elys ...

Turkey has ended sanctions on France that were enacted after former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's attempted to pass a bill criminalizing denial of the events of 1915 as genocide, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said today. The move was based on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's orders, Davutoğlu said during an interview with private broadcaster CNNTürk.  "We can see that newly elected Pres ...

GOOD NEWS FOR TURKEY.. As well as many others in the world.. Mr. Sarkozy (luckily) has lost to Mr. Francois Hollande in presidential elections. This gentleman has unfortunately taken his place among the most unsuccessful presidents in French history due to his inappropriate attitude and politics throught his time in office. In fact he has truly scatched the minor problems between France and Turkey and made ...

French candidate Hollande promises to bring back 'genocide' bill French presidential frontrunner François Hollande has promised to bring back a government-backed law criminalizing denials of the 1915 events as genocide if he is elected even though the country’s Constitutional Council rejected a similar bill yesterday, Anatolia news agency reported. Hollande promised to reopen the debate in a peaceful negoti ...

The protest of the Armenian bill has resulted in a 34.4% drop in French imports compared to the same period of the year prior. The increasing reactions have at present resulted in a monthly detriment to Sarkozy of 356 million dollars. The draft passed by the French Parliament which deems criminalizing the Armenian allegations of a so-called 'genocide' has slowly begun to result in an increasing financial bi ...

France's new law punishing denial of the Armenian claims of genocide was put on hold Tuesday after politicians opposed to the legislation demanded that its constitutionality be examined. Turkey reacted furiously last week when the Senate approved the law which threatens with jail anyone in France who denies that the 1915 killings amounted to genocide. President Nicolas Sarkozy's office brushed off angry thr ...

Turkey views all French firms that have invested in Turkey as Turkish, Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan said at a press conference following a closed meeting with French businessmen in Turkey on Jan. 27. “Those foreign companies – be they from France or any other country - who trustfully invested in Turkey, are Turkish companies in our eyes,” Çağlayan told reporters, amid calls for restraint against potentia ...

Reporters Without Borders in Paris urged parliamentarians to refer the bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 to the Constitutional Council. PARIS- A letter by Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said that parliamentarians must demand the bill's referral to the Council, because it was against freedom of ...

European liberals and democrats have slammed a French law that makes it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted genocide, saying the move was "incomprehensible." Alexander Graf Lambsdorf from Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP) said in a statement that the genocide-denial bill is an additional burden on already strained Turkish-European relations, a ...

EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said yesterday that the developing Turkey would rescue Europe as an EU member. Speaking in a session entitled "Turkey in the 21st century" as part of "Europe's Digital Life Design Conference" in Munich, Bagis said, "We are more determined than ever to become a member of the EU. My new slogan is ‘hold on tight Europe, Turkey is coming to rescue you'." Stating tha ...

Largest employers' organization in France calls French companies doing business in Turkey to urgent meeting The largest employers' organization in France, MEDEF, has called French companies doing business in Turkey to an urgent meeting on Tuesday. In a statement made to the French News Agency, a MEDEF representative said that an urgent meeting has been scheduled for French companies doing business in Turkey ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Davutoğlu has warned France on the ‘Armenian Bill”, while France calls on Turkey for restraint. Despite all the warnings from Ankara, protests from Turks and criticism from French intellectuals, the bill which foresees criminalizing the denial of the Armenian 'genocide' was passed yesterday by the French Senate with 127 votes in favor and 86 votes against. SECOND SANCTION PACKET SIT ...

French Senate voted late for Monday a controversial bill making it a crime to deny the 1915 killings of Armenians was a genocide, ignoring warnings from Turkey that passage of the legislation would lead to new sanctions. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned hours before the French Senate debate on the denial bill that runs a high risk of wrecking Turkish-French ties that the bill could provoke reactio ...

France’s Constitutional Commission has declared that a bill that would criminalize denials of the 1915 events as genocide is contrary to the constitution, daily Hürriyet reported today. Twenty-three members voted for the change that requires the bill to be reconsidered before putting it to a Senate vote scheduled for Jan. 23. Nine voted against the change, while eight chose to abstain. The commission's nega ...

The Turkish Central Bank could withdraw its nearly 23 billion euros of reserves from France after the EU member’s recent move to fine any denial of an Armenian ‘genocide’ in 1915, economists tell the Daily News. However, such a sharp move could risk Turkey’s EU bid, they add. Turkey’s Central Bank might shift nearly 30 billion Turkish Liras of investment in French bonds to other European powerhouses as part ...

Turkey has established a series of sanctions to be implemented in stages against France dependent on developments unraveling. If France continues to pursue passing the contentious bill than the Airbus tender may be put on hold. Sarkozy may also be subjected to air field limitations. Details of the sanctions Turkey is considering implementing on France, whose parliament passed a bill making denying the 'so-c ...

France's Sarkozy urges mutual respect of views with TurkeyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday urged the mutual respect of views between his country and Turkey amid a row over France's criminalisation of the denial of the Armenian genocide. "I respect the views of our Turkish friends -- it's a great country, a great civilisation -- and they must respect ours," Sarkozy said in Prague where he is attending ...

French Parliament has passed a bill to penalize the denial of the (so-said) Armenian “genocide”, today. Paris had officially recognized the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1917 as genocide, earlier. Reverting to the session at the parliament, A french deputy has commented saying "France challenged many obstacles to live this day and it could be marked as a historic human rights d ...

If the French parliament passes the genocide bill on Thursday (22nd Dec 2011) everybody will be holding their breath to see what Ankara has to say. Many people (Turks to be in the first place) believe Turkey should consider retaliating by boycotting trade with France to include civil boycott of French goods by Turkish people. Some other say Turkey should pass a bill in the parliament saying what France did ...

A country which always refers to "DEMOCRACY", liberty and especially "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" is upto playing dirty games against Turkey only to win a couple of hundred thousand Armeninan votes by trying to pass a bill which is supposed to punish anybody to deny so-said Armenian genocide (claimed to have been carried out by the Turkish state in the past). It is absolutely NONSENSE and out of logic to even make a ...

Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee meets with senior French politicians to drum up opposition against a French bill crimalizing ‘genocide’ denial. AA photoA Turkish parliamentary delegation started a three-day campaign in Paris yesterday to halt a French motion criminalizing the denial of Armenian genocide claims, warning that the bill’s passage would seriously damage bilateral ties. Volkan Bo ...

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan told France on Saturday to study its own history rather than Turkey's in a warning against the French parliament passing a law making it illegal to deny Aremnian allegations of a mass killing in the Ottoman Empire. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a major critic of Turkey's flagging bid to join the European Union, told Turkey in October that unless it recognized the 1915 killi ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a letter today to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, warning of the "grave consequences" a French bill recognizing Armenian genocide claims would have on bilateral relations. "I want to express this clearly," Erdoğan said. "These steps will lead to grave consequences for the cultural, economic and political relations between France and Turkey, and the responsi ...