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Turkey ends French military ties
The commander of the Turkish army says his country has suspended all military ties with France. Gen Ilker Basbug said this was in protest at a bill passed by the French National Assembly to make it a crime to deny the Armenian "genocide".
French-Turkish trade amounted to 8.2bn euros (£5.5bn; $10.5bn) in 2005, the French news agency AFP reports. The new French bill, tabled by the opposition but opposed by the French government, needs approval from the Senate and president before it becomes law. It is unlikely to become law because President Jacques Chirac opposes it.
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