(cihannews) - Municipality of Bandirma in northwestern Turkey has approved a proposal "to build a monument of Algerian Genocide" in the town in protest at the adoption of the controversial Armenian bill in French Parliament, reports Trend.
The proposal submitted the mayor during a municipal assembly meeting has been approved "unanimously".
Bandirma Mayor Cemal Oztaylan said that they had asked for help from the Algerian Embassy in Ankara on how to state the genocide in best way. Oztaylan remarked that the embassy would respond to their request in a month.
The mayor of the town noted that some citizens applied the municipality to donate for the building of the monument, adding that their application would be evaluated.
On October 12, French National Assembly passed a bill which makes it a crime to deny so-called Armenian genocide, which they claimed the Turks committed against Armenians during the World War I.
Interestingly enough, France does not recognize the claims of genocide which the French committed against the Algerians in the second half of the 20th century.
"Sons don't apologize for their fathers' mistakes" French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said during an official visit to Algeria last week, in response to the Algerian government, which urged France to apologize for the killings and suffering during 130 years of colonial rule of France.