ISTANBUL. – With his upcoming visit to Armenia and attendance to the concert in Paris devoted to 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence, French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on the attack in order to restore his deteriorated relations with French Armenians, Turkey’s Hurriyet daily writes.

Sarkozy had obstructed the French Senate from passing a bill on holding to criminal account those who deny the Armenian Genocide, and, subsequently, relations with French Armenians worsened, the Turkish daily notes.     

“Sarkozy went on the attack to restore relations with the [Armenian] Diaspora, but, at the same time, without spoiling relations with Turkey. In the Paris concert, devoted to 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence and with performance by Charles Aznavour, Sarkozy sat beside Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan,” Hurriyet writes, reminding that the approximately 500-thousand-strong Armenian Diaspora living in France had stated that it will support socialist Francois Hollande’s nomination in the presidential elections.