Turkish lawmakers as well as business leaders will put more pressure on Paris this week to block the passage of a bill punishing the denial of Armenian ‘genocide.’
Turkey’s main opposition party also plans to lobby against the bill, while Turkish PM Erdogan calls on France to shed light on its ‘dirty, bloody history’.
Turkish lawmakers and business leaders are preparing to run a full-court diplomatic press against France to prevent the adoption of a controversial law penalizing the denial of Armenian genocide claims.
A delegation led by Volkan Bozkır, head of Parliament’s Foreign Relations Committee, will launch a three-day campaign in Paris today where he will express the Turkish legislature’s unease to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and other senior French lawmakers and officials.
A vote on the bill is expected to take place Dec. 22.
Bozkır’s meeting will also include Jean-Marc Ayrault, head of the Socialist Group at the French Parliament, and Michel Diefenbacher, head of the Turkish-French Friendship Group. Bozkır will also meet French Parliament Speaker Bernard Accoyer and French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s foreign policy adviser, Jean-David Levitte, on Dec. 20.
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is also planning to send a delegation to Paris.
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