Keep advice to yourself, Turkish PM tells Sarkozy over Armenia remarks

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday lashed out at French President Nicholas Sarkozy for recent remarks calling on Turkey to face its history and recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide, saying the French leader should keep his advice to himself.   "You see the French President Sarkozy is giving some advice to Turkey in a move to invest in the [upcoming French] elections. You should first listen to your own advice. He is different in France, different in Armenia and more different in Turkey. There cannot be a political leader with so many faces. Politics requires honesty," Erdogan said during a speech delivered at his party's parliamentary group meeting. Recalling that there are nearly 600,000 Armenians in France, but there are also as much as 500,000 Turks in France, he accused the French president of disregarding his country's relations with Turkey for such "minor calculations." "Holding the title of a statesman requires thinking about future generations, not future elections. It will be too late for those who fail to understand this now when they understand the reality," Erdogan added.