ANKARA: General Basbug: Turkish-French Military Relations Are Shelve

GENERAL BASBUG: TURKISH-FRENCH MILITARY RELATIONS ARE SHELVED FOR NOW
Hurriyet, Turkey
Nov 16 2006
The top commanding officer of the Turkish Land Forces, General Ilker
Basbug, has said that following the French Parliament’s decision to
approve a bill calling for jail time and monetary fines for people
publicly denying Armenian genocide allegations, that high level visits
between his officers and French land forces officers are no longer
on the docket.
Basbug commented yesterday that relations between Turkish and
French military officials are currently “shelved” in the wake of the
controversial French parliamentary decision. Basbug’s comments came
during a reception in honor of the founding of the Northern Cypriot
republic.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS