Military ties with France suspended
From Times Wire Reports
Turkey has suspended military relations with France in a dispute over whether the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century amounted to genocide, Turkish army Gen. Ilker Basbug said in Ankara, according to the state-owned Anatolia news agency.
The move was the latest backlash against French legislation that, if approved by the Senate and president, would criminalize denial that the killings of Armenians in Turkey were genocide.
France’s Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry had no immediate comment.
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