Turkey will respond to unfounded Armenian claims with historical documents, Turkish TRT Haber TV channel quotes the country's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Tuesday.
The lower house of the French Parliament adopted a bill criminalizing the denial of a fictitious "Armenian genocide" on Dec. 22.
Some 45 out of 577 French MPs voted, 38 of which voted for, while seven went against the adoption of the bill.
MPs from the French President's "Union for Popular Movement" (UMP) party which has the parliamentary majority, proposed the bill which aims at criminalising denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide" to the legislative committee of the National Assembly in early December.
The bill envisages about one year imprisonment and a fine worth 45,000 euros for denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide".
The Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that the predecessor of the Turkey - Ottoman Empire had committed the 1915 genocide against the Armenians living in Anadolu, and achieved recognition of the "Armenian Genocide" by the parliaments of several countries.
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