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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told fellow members of his country's ruling party Saturday that French President Jacques Chirac has apologized to him for the French National Assembly's passage [JURIST...

The European Union (EU) Friday condemned passage of a French bill making it a crime punishable by imprisonment to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey during World War I...

Reconnaissance du genocide armenien de 1915, French National Assembly, October 12, 2006 . Read the full text of the...

The French lower house of parliament, the National Assembly , approved an internationally-controversial bill Thursday that imposes monetary penalties and jail time on anyone who denies that there was an Armenian genocide early in...

Turkey's most prominent writer, Orhan Pamuk , won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for his work examining the role of Islam in society. Pamuk, a visiting professor at Columbia University, said he...

His Excellency Nabi Sensoy, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey : "During the First World War the Ottoman government was fighting for survival against the Entente powers. A situation of extreme danger existed as a result of...

Lawmakers in the Turkish parliament Wednesday discussed a bill that would label the killings of Algerians by France during the colonial period as genocide and make it illegal to deny that the French were responsible...

Turkey asked the European Union Monday to express opposition to a proposed French law which would imposes fines and jail terms on anyone who denies that there was an Armenian genocide . France...

The head of the justice committee that reviews draft legislation in Turkey's parliament warned in an interview published in a Turkish newspaper Saturday that if France attempts to make it a crime to deny that the Ottoman...

Another Turkish author went on trial Thursday on charges that he "insulted the Turkish identity" in violation of Article 301 of the country's penal code. Ipek Calislar wrote that the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa...