Erdogan receives Sultani

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Algeria's Society Peace Movement leader Abu Jara Sultani yesterday. The genocide carried out by France in Algeria in 1945 was brought to agenda during the two-hour meeting, in which Sultani spoke about the pain he and Algerian people have gone through during and after the genocide. Stating that he understands the Algerian people's sufferings, Erdogan said that Turkey had never carried out genocide against Armenians. Erdogan stated that the two Muslim countries should support each other and thus the two leaders came to an understanding to exercise influence over France in cooperation with more than 300 Algerian associations based in France. According to the action plan, these associations will bring the Algerian genocide to agenda and lobby against the passage of the bill from French senate which criminalizes denial of Armenian claims.