Recep Tayyip Erdogan France Turkey row
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey, has hit out at French plans to prosecute people who deny the mass killings of Armenians was genocide. Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Turkey has threatened to denounce France's colonial past at international meetings in retaliation for French plans to prosecute people who deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks was genocide.

Turkey rejects the term genocide to describe the killings of Armenians more than 90 years ago. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed and experts say it was the first genocide of the 20th century.

France considers the killings a genocide. The lower house of the French parliament is to debate a proposal that would punish anyone denying that the slaughter was genocide with one year in prison and a €45,000 (£37,700) fine.

The issue threatens to further harm Turkish-French relations already tense over French president Nicolas Sarkozy's opposition to Turkey's bid to join the EU.

Turkey has threatened to withdraw its ambassador to France if the bill is passed, while prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the country should investigate alleged French abuses in Algeria and Rwanda instead.

France had troops in Rwanda in 1994, and Rwandan president Paul Kagame has accused the country of doing little to stop the country's genocide.

Turkey's foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday that Ankara would bring up the issue of "French colonialism" and "start talking about truths everywhere in the world". His words were carried by the state-run Anadolu agency.

Meanwhile, France's foreign ministry said on Monday that foreign minister Alain Juppe would meet a delegation from Turkey's parliament on Tuesday to discuss the draft law.

Volkan Bozkir, head of the foreign affairs committee, and opposition figure Osman Koruturk are leading the delegation that is lobbying French legislators against the bill.

Turks have called for a boycott of French goods and companies in retaliation for the draft law.

Turkish government officials say trade rules and a customs union agreement between Turkey and the EU forbid an official boycott of France – an important economic partner.

Turkey's economy minister said, however, that a joint Turkish-French economic co-operation meeting scheduled for January could be cancelled if the bill is passed.

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Can we get some Turks here on FuckFraonce now?

Sarkozy est devenu la tête de turc d'Erdogan.

Dewi_Sant wrote:

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed and experts say it was the first genocide of the 20th century.
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... following the last genocide of the 19th century (and so far, the most successful genocide in History), i.e. the genocide of 10 millions American Indians by US colonisers.

Turkey has threatened to denounce France's colonial past at international meetings

Lord knows there's a shitload to denounce. France has a disgraceful colonial legacy. Take your pick....from the Caribbean to North and South America to Africa to Southeast Asia and other places France has been up to their beady eyeballs in colonial sleaze.

Lord_Buckhouse wrote:

Turkey has threatened to denounce France's colonial past at international meetings

Lord knows there's a shitload to denounce. France has a disgraceful colonial legacy. Take your pick....from the Caribbean to North and South America to Africa to Southeast Asia and other places France has been up to their beady eyeballs in colonial sleaze.

Normands didn't kill all English. Unfortunately.

Turning french jews over to the nazi's in france by the french is
also genocide.

That sounds like a good meal.

I have an ottoman that came with a chair.

In todays news: 1.5m Algerians dead thanks to the French.

Says the Turkish President

That would be great! We could reminisce about the glory days of the old Romanian Order of the Dragon, and the forests full of thousands upon thousands of dead Muss impaled on pikes, the Crusades, as well as the ass-kicking the fucking Turk savages got in WWI and the end of their empire.

Future plans could include the rebirth of Constantinople, as well as Armenian and Greek instigated pogroms against these shitheads.

PopsFrost wrote:

Can we get some Turks here on FuckFraonce now?

GhostDivision wrote:

That would be great! We could reminisce about the glory days of the old Romanian Order of the Dragon, and the forests full of thousands upon thousands of dead Muss impaled on pikes, the Crusades, as well as the ass-kicking the fucking Turk savages got in WWI and the end of their empire.

Future plans could include the rebirth of Constantinople, as well as Armenian and Greek instigated pogroms against these shitheads.

PopsFrost wrote:

Can we get some Turks here on FuckFraonce now?

sadly the Greeks have a country with no resources and the Armenians have the greatest small shit country out there

the turks also have millions of people. they are done for