The Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Relation’s Committee approved a bill accusing France of committing genocide against Turks in Anatolia in the 1920s during France’s occupation of southern Turkey.
Although the deputies agreed to the approval of the bill, they were not able to agree on the exact wording of the text. As a result of the debates, Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik’s proposal was accepted and committee chairman Kamran Inan was charged to prepare a new text.
Irtemcelik suggested not to directly include Algerians in the bill since it may weaken the law.
“Turkey did not support the Algerians’ struggle for independence against France in the 1950s and did not recognize Algeria’s independence in 1954. How can Turkey answer any questions from Algeria on this issue?” Irtemcelik said.
He also indicated that the Armenian massacre of Azeri people in Nagorno-Karabakh at the beginning of the 1990s and the assassination of Turkish diplomats by terrorist organization the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) may be included in the new draft law.
The committee members will come together next week to discuss a new text.
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