TURKEY CONFIDENT TIES WITH FRANCE WILL IMPROVE
Emirates 24/7
May 22 2012
UAE
By AP
Published Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Turkey’s president says he is confident that ties with France will
improve fast under President Francois Hollande.
Abdullah Gul met with Hollande late Monday on the sidelines of the
Nato summit in Chicago and later told Turkish reporters the new French
president’s position was “opposite” to that of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy strongly opposed Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.
Tensions peaked this year when France tried to introduce a law making
it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
amounted to genocide. The law was eventually ruled unconstitutional.
Gul said he told Hollande that the two nations have no conflict of
interest and therefore no reason to “act like enemies.”
He said: “I am sure they will make an assessment and our relations
will rapidly change.”
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