Saudi Press Agency (SPA)
May 11, 2012 Friday

Turkey hopes for better ties with France

ISTANBUL, Jumada II 20, 1433, May 11, 2012, SPA — A Turkish news
agency has reported that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has telephoned
French President-elect Francois Hollande to congratulate him on his
election victory, and expressed wishes for a new era in relations,
according to AP.

Anadolu news agency said late Thursday that Hollande responded to
Erdogan’s gestures to resolve tensions by saying France and Turkey
share a common vision on many international issues, and that he wants
the countries to be on good terms.

Tensions peaked earlier this year when France debated a law making it
a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a
century ago amounted to genocide. The law was eventually ruled
unconstitutional.