Turkey may hit back at France with Algeria 'Genocide' law.

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TURKEY MAY HIT BACK AT FRANCE WITH ALGERIA 'GENOCIDE' LAW

Received Saturday, 7 October 2006 09:13:00 GMT

ANKARA, Oct 7, 2006 (AFP) - Turkey may retaliate to a draft French law making it a jailable offense to deny the Armenians were the victim of genocide under the Ottoman Empire with a similar law on French killings under colonial rule in Algeria, a senior lawmaker said in remarks published Saturday.
Koksal Toptan, head of the Turkish parliament's justice commission, told the mass-selling Sabah daily he had initially ignored proposals made in May for Turkey to brand killings of Algerians under French colonial rule as genocide and introduce prison terms for those who deny it.

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France already passed in 2001 a resolution recognizing the 1915-17 killings of Armenians as genocide.
The bill to criminalize genocide denial was first tabled in May but the debate ran out of parliamentary time before a vote could be held.
Toptan said Turkish MPs had filed three proposals for retaliative laws.
According to parliamentary records, two of them call for the recognition of the killings of Algerians under French colonial rule -- from 1830 to 1962 -- as genocide and the introduction of jail terms for those who deny it.
The third calls for the imprisonment of those who assert the Armenians were victims of genocide under Ottoman rule.

http://www.ttc.org/200610070913.k979d0124329.htm