Turkish parliament speaker warns France against deteriorating relations

ANKARA (A.A) - Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek said that adoption of the resolution criminalizing the rejection of Armenian allegations on 1915 incidents by French Parliament would cause an irreparable damage in Turkish-French relations. I hope they act with common sense during the voting, added Cicek. A French resolution criminalizing the rejection of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915 will be voted on December 22 at French Parliament. In January 2001, French Parliament adopted a law recognizing so-called Armenian genocide in 1915. Cicek noted that France was using a historical matter as a tool to its inner politics, adding that this issue should be discussed by historians, not by politicians. Turkish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Volkan Bozkir headed a parliamentary delegation which held talks in the French capital in the past few days to prevent the French parliament from adopting the resolution. In his return from Paris today, Bozkir said it seemed that the French parliament would pass the law on Thursday.