President François Hollande promised that the French people would be given the chance to vote in a referendum over whether France should support Turkey's bid to enter the EU. The vow came after his Turkish counterpart asked France not to stand in the way.
A French-Turkish student sentenced last week to more than five years in prison for terrorist propaganda on Monday paid bail of 10,000 Turkish lira (€4,250) enabling her to return to France pending an appeal, her lawyer said.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called for the extradition of more than 20 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) arrested in multiple police raids in France and Spain.
Seventeen Kurds have been arrested in southwestern France in an anti-terror probe into extortion rackets used to raise funds for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), legal sources said Tuesday.
Kurdish organisations in France and Iraq on Wednesday claimed that the alleged killer of three female activists shot dead in Paris must have been a shadowy double agent working for Turkey.
An associate of three female Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris has been charged with their murders, a French prosecutor announced following an indictment hearing on Monday.
An associate of three female Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris will appear in court Monday for an indictment hearing in connection with the triple murder, judicial sources have told AFP news agency.
French police have detained two people for questioning in connection with the killings of three female Kurdish activists in Paris last week, a judicial source said on Friday.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said Friday it would hold France responsible if it does not quickly shed light on the slaying of three female Kurdish activists in Paris.
A co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and two other militants were found shot dead Thursday in Paris, a day after Turkey and the jailed leader of the banned group were reported to have agreed on a peace plan to end a three-decade-old insurgency.
A UMP deputy has criticized noisy public weddings involving convoys – particularly popular with certain immigrant groups – telling the people responsible for them to “go back home”.
French police detained a suspected European leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and three other members this weekend, judicial sources said.
A French-Turkish university student went on trial on Wednesday accused of links to an outlawed far-left extremist group in a case that has sparked criticism from human rights groups.
A French-Turkish student detained in Turkey for nearly three months on suspicion of links to an outlawed far-left extremist
group said Tuesday the case against her is "rubbish".
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Toulouse football club almost lost close to a million euros after it paid the wrong club for a new player.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">France's top court ruled on Tuesday that a law backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy to punish denial of the Armenian genocide was unconstitutional as it infringed on freedom of expression.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">President Nicolas Sarkozy will immediately submit a new draft of a law punishing denial of the Armenian genocide if France's top judicial body rejects it, two ministers told AFP on Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A group of French senators said on Tuesday they had asked the constitutional council to examine a new law that punishes denial of the Armenian genocide, effectively suspending the legislation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French senators have passed a bill outlawing the denial of Armenian genocide in 1915, with a seething Turkey slamming the move and warning of consequences while Armenia hailed a day "written in gold."</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: small;">The French parliamentarian who proposed a controversial genocide denial bill has received death threats and had her website attacked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #222222;" lang="EN-US">Turkey's ambassador was to leave Paris on Friday</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #222222;" lang="EN-US"> <span>in a row with France over a law making it a criminal offence to deny that a</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">massacre of Armenians by Ottoman troops in 1915 amounted to genocide.</span></p>
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<p>Turkey is increasing pressure on France on all fronts as French lawmakers prepare to debate a draft law making it a criminal offence to deny the Armenian genocide on Thursday.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Turkish business leaders warned France on Sunday that its adoption of a law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide would have devastating consequences for trade ties.</span></p>
<p>German police said on Tuesday they had foiled a bid by two Turks to kidnap a 17-year-old girl from Sarregumines, in eastern France, for a forced marriage in Turkey.</p>
