Posted on 12/22/2011 12:10:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
Turkey's prime minister says his country is recalling its ambassador to France and halting official contact in retaliation for a vote in the French Parliament making it a crime to deny the WWI-era mass killings of Armenians was a genocide.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also said Thursday that Ankara was halting military cooperation between the two countries by suspending joint maneuvers and restricting French military flights.
Erdoğan says more retaliatory moves may follow.
The bill was passed Thursday in France's lower house. It still must be approved in the Senate.
Turkey rejects the term "genocide" to describe the killings. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Denying history worked well for the Nazis. Clearly the Turkish think that will work for them as well.
Denial’s worked so far. It’s been nearly a century, and no one’s done anything about it yet.
“The opportunity presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race”.
And there you have the key to the moose limbs little problem.
It is what they want for the entire world
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