Chirac 'Regrets' Armenian Genocide Bill
October 15, 2006
Turkish demonstrators outside the French consulate in Istanbul protesting on October 8 against the French 'Armenian genocide' bill (epa)
The bill, passed on October 12, makes it a crime to deny that the 1915-17 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks constituted genocide.
The bill still has to undergo a vote in the Senate and a second assembly reading before being passed into law.
(AFP)