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Macron to raise human rights issues with Erdogan

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 09:56:47 +0100

French President Emmanuel Macron will raise human rights issues with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan when they meet next Friday, the Elysee said on Saturday.

Hollande summons Egypt envoy over crackdown

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:52:00 +0200

French President Francois Hollande has summoned the Egyptian ambassador to France for a meeting on Thursday, sources at the presidency said, a day after a bloody crackdown on supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president.

Genocide law MP receives death threats

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:53:00 +0100

The French parliamentarian who proposed a controversial genocide denial bill has received death threats and had her website attacked.

Turkish envoy to leave Paris after vote

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:54:00 +0100

Turkey's ambassador was to leave Paris on Friday in a row with France over a law making it a criminal offence to deny that a massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops in 1915 amounted to genocide.