October 17, 2006 - 15:17 AMT
Turkish Speaker Doubts "Chirac's Apology Genuine"
Bulent Arinc, the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, has said that he does not think French President Jacques Chirac's apologetic phone call to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the wake of the French Parliament's acceptance of the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide was "genuine." "He was not genuine," Arinc underscored, writes Turkish Hurriyet.