Davutoglu slams French bill

Concerning the French Senate's adoption of the bill criminalizing the denial of 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu yesterday made a statement on the plane on his way to Moscow. "If something like this happened in Turkey, who knows how the EU would react. This is hypocrisy. I wonder why it was not adopted last May, but now. The only change is the fact that elections are getting closer in France." Davutoglu also called on 350,000 Turkish people living in France to throw their political weight about with regard to the future of France.