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A new law could create "irreparable damage" in Turkish-French relations. (Photo: European Commission)

Turkey and France clash over Armenia 'genocide'

Turkey has recalled its ambassador to France in protest against a French bid to criminalise denial of the alleged Turkish genocide of Armenians in the early 1900s.

Turkey has always rejected claims by international historians that 1.5 million Armenians died between 1915 and 1923 as a result of systematic genocide while modern-day Armenia was under Turkish Ottoman control.

A spokesperson for the foreign ministry in Ankara said on Monday (9 May) that the ambassador was recalled fo...

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A new law could create "irreparable damage" in Turkish-French relations. (Photo: European Commission)

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