Turkey’s Ambassador to France Tahsin Burcuoglu expressed Ankara’s concern about Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent remarks during his meeting with French President’s foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte.

The envoy also wrote a letter to prominent Socialist candidate Francois Hollande calling not to turn Turkey into a foreign policy tool, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

 “The message we have conveyed does not solely refer to Sarkozy, but to the entire French political class. We have underlined that this kind of rhetoric does not serve anything other than to ruin our bilateral relations. We want to improve our relations, but these statements are not helpful to this end. We know all French politicians are making similar statements, but Sarkozy was very careless in doing so as he tried to threaten Turkey just a few steps away from our soil,” the newspaper quotes the diplomat.

According to the daily, Levite tried “to depict Sarkozy’s words as candid advice from a friendly country” but Burcuoglu recalled Algeria was France’s colony when the 1915 incident took place.

During his visit to Armenia, Nicolas Sarkozy slammed Turkey for not recognizing the Armenian Genocide, adding France should adopt a law prosecuting the denial of Armenian Genocide in case Turkey refuses to acknowledge its past.