FRANCE’S TURKEY BASTE
The Weekly Times
February 1, 2012 Wednesday
Australia
TURKEY’S Union of Agricultural Chambers will begin a boycott of all
French agricultural products after Paris approved a law criminalising
denial of the Armenian genocide.
The head of the Agricultural Union, Samsi Bayraktar, said his group
represented 5.4 million Turkish farmers and it had decided on the
boycott because the French decision on the Armenian issue disturbed
every Turkish citizen, the Middle East Monitor reports.
“The boycott will deal a blow to co-operation between Turkish and
French agronomists at both the economic and social levels,” he said.
He said he looked forward to the reaction of French farmers.
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute, last year Turkey’s
exports to France reached $6.9 billion, with imports from France
being valued at $8.6 billion.
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