SARKOZY THREATENS TURKEY JUST A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM OUR SOIL – TURKISH DIPLOMAT
news.am, Armenia
Oct 11 2011
Turkey’s Ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu expressed Ankara’s
concern about Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent remarks during his meeting
with French President’s foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte.
The envoy also wrote a letter to prominent Socialist candidate
Francois Hollande calling not to turn Turkey into a foreign policy
tool, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
“The message we have conveyed does not solely refer to Sarkozy, but to
the entire French political class. We have underlined that this kind
of rhetoric does not serve anything other than to ruin our bilateral
relations. We want to improve our relations, but these statements are
not helpful to this end. We know all French politicians are making
similar statements, but Sarkozy was very careless in doing so as
he tried to threaten Turkey just a few steps away from our soil,”
the newspaper quotes the diplomat.
According to the daily, Levite tried “to depict Sarkozy’s words as
candid advice from a friendly country” but Burcuoglu recalled Algeria
was France’s colony when the 1915 incident took place.
During his visit to Armenia, Nicolas Sarkozy slammed Turkey for not
recognizing the Armenian Genocide, adding France should adopt a law
prosecuting the denial of Armenian Genocide in case Turkey refuses
to acknowledge its past.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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