Turkey has suspended military relations with France in a dispute over whether the mass killings of Armenians in the last century amounted to genocide.
General Ilker Basbug, the land forces commander, was quoted on Wednesday by state-owned Anatolia news agency as saying in Ankara: “Relations with France in the military field have been suspended.”
On possible cancellation of military visits, Basbug said: “There are no high-level visits between the two countries.”
Such a law would make it a crime to deny that the 1915-1917 massacres of an estimated 1.2 million Christian Armenians by Ottoman Turks were an act of genocide.
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