Euronews: Turkey calls on France to halt genocide bill

A Turkish delegation has attempted to get the French government to drop a parliamentary bill that has soured relations with Ankara, Euronews reported.

The Turkish President has also called on Paris to scrap the draft law. But the French government argues it cannot stop a private member’s bill, even if it wanted to.

The new law would make it illegal to deny that the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey was genocide, something Ankara rejects.

Parliament will start debate on the bill on Thursday.