TURKISH DEPUTIES OBJECT TO ALGERIAN GENOCIDE PROPOSAL
Turkish Press
Oct 24 2006
ANKARA – Chairman of Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission
Mehmet Dulger and Chairman of EU Adjustment Commission Yasar Yakis
objected to the submission of a draft law to the parliament’s Justice
Commission regarding Algerian genocide, to be debated tomorrow.
“In case of the adoption of a draft on Algerian genocide, we will
reduce ourselves into a position like France,” said Mehmet Dulger,
a deputy of ruling Justice & Development Party (AKP). However, Dulger
noted that French products could be boycotted. “We should hurt them.
Maybe this way we can let them see the realities,” he added.
Responding to a question about 70,000 Armenians working illegally
in Turkey, Dulger said “we see this fact as a generosity of Turkish
Republic. Moreover 90 percent of MPs in French parliament do not know
about Turkish-Armenian relations and its historical dimension”.
Yasar Yakis, another deputy of AKP, also objected to the proposal
about Algerian genocide.
“If there had been a genocide in Algeria, Algerians themselves should
deal with it and pass a legislation. While Algerians have not made
such a law, it won’t be logic for us to make one,” he noted.
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