The French Senate’s decision is the “greatest injustice, and it bespeaks the absolute lack of respect toward Turkey,” Turkey’s Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin told CNN Turk news agency, in connection with the Senate’s passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide.   

In his turn, Volkan Bozkir, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Turkish parliament, wrote, “France has opened a black page in its history,” in his Twitter account. 

And during his speech at the Turkish parliament, on Tuesday, Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to introduce his country’s counter actions.   

To note, with a vote of 127 in favor and 86 against, France’s Senate passed Monday the bill that criminalizes the denial of the genocides which this country has formally recognized. And these are the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. This law sets a one-year prison sentence plus a 45-thousand-Euro fine for anyone who denies these genocides. According to the regulations, the French President will ratify it within fifteen days.