Turkish envoy eyes halt of 'genocide' bill

Turkey's ambassador to France said he expected the France's Constitutional Council to annul legislation criminalizing denials of the 1915 events as genocide after a sufficient number of senators challenged the bill in the high court." We have received the result we want. We thank everyone who extended support. Turkish-French relations could not survive with such a law. We expect a positive ruling from the council," Tahsin Burcuoglu told Anatolia news agency Jan. 31. On Jan. 31, two separate groups of French politicians who oppose the contentious legislation – from both the Senate and the lower house of Parliament – said they had requested that the Constitutional Council examine the law. The council is obliged to deliver its judgment within 30 says, but this could be reduced to eight days if the government deems the matter urgent.