Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that he would like to express his gratitude to French senators who signed to appeal the law penalizing denial of the Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 adopted at the French Senate.
Signatures of 65 MPs and 72 senators have been collected to appeal the law at the French Constitutional Council.
Replying to questions of reporters, Erdogan said that he believed that senators and MPs did what should be done.
French senators appealed the law at the French Constitutional Council on Tuesday.
The council is expected to make public its decision within a month.
The law penalizes denial of the Armenian allegations with a prison term of one year and a fine of 45 thousand euros.
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