France said that Turkey was an important ally and partner for France.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told reporters on Thursday that France attached importance in consultations with Ankara regarding regional and international matters.
Consultations are continuing within the scope of mutual understanding and common interests, said Valero after a tension emerged between Paris and Ankara as French Parliament will vote a draft law that criminalizes rejection of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915 next week.
Meanwhile, Valero did not comment on statements that Turkey would recall its Ambassador in Paris Tahsin Burcuoglu, if the draft law gets adopted at the French Parliament.
In a former warning, Turkey had told the French Parliament that history could not be written by the parliaments.
Turkey had asked the French Parliament to implement a report that was prepared by an investigation committee at the French Parliament in 2008.
In a statement posted on their web site, the Turkish Embassy in Paris said that "the investigation committee was chaired by Parliament Speaker Bernard Accoyer and the committee in its report had said that the parliaments' role was not to write history nor to make legislation that would require penalties".
In their statement, the Turkish Embassy said that they hoped French authorities would leave history to historians.
A draft law on the same issue had come up at the Senate in May but was not accepted by a majority. We were astonished to see an identical draft law get approved at the French parliamentary committee on laws at a time when France was getting ready for elections, the Turkish Embassy said.
The French Parliament will vote on the draft law that criminalizes rejection of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915 on December 22.
The draft law will make it possible to penalize individuals who reject Armenian allegations by a prison term of one year and a fine of 45,000 euros.
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