Monday, 9 January 2012Turkey's Ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu returned to Paris on Saturday after two weeks in Turkey for consultations with the Foreign Ministry, which decided to pull the ambassador after a majority in the French lower house approved a bill to criminalize the denial of "Armenian genocide." Today`s Zaman reported
Burcuoglu left Turkey on Saturday to resume his mission in Paris, where he is expected to keep up Turkey's efforts to block the bill from coming to the agenda of the French Senate or, alternatively, get it voted down. Turkey argues the bill will damage freedom of expression in France and drastically hurt financial ties between the two countries. Speaking to reporters in late December during his stay in Turkey, Burcuoglu noted he was not withdrawn from Paris indefinitely but for consultations, and it would only be natural for him to return to France to keep up Turkish efforts "until the end." |
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