Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had voiced the Algerian “genocide”—after the French National Assembly’s passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide—is again criticized by Algeria’s ruling Democratic National Union Party.

The Party’s spokesperson Miloud Chorfi stated that Erdogan and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are from the same “colonial club,” and that Turkey was never alongside Algeria during the Algerian events, Firat News Agency informs.       

Chorfi noted that by accusing France of committing “genocide” of the Algerians, Erdogan is attempting to mislead the Algerians.

To note, the Algerian PM likewise had criticized the Turkish PM, and had called upon him to not make a bargaining chip the blood which the Algerians had shed. “Turkey has had some role in all the killings France committed in Algeria. Turkey is a NATO member, and France fought against the Algerian people with the weaponry of the same organization. The Algerians were killed by the bullets which Turkey manufactured,” the Algerian PM had noted.