By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 13:37 EST, 24 January 2012 Turkey threatened the France with retaliation after a controversial bill to make it a crime to deny the mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks moved a step closer to becoming law. Fury: Turkish press branded Sarkozy Satan as relations between the two countries become more strained Turkey sees the allegations of genocide in 1915 as the Ottoman Empire imploded as a threat to its national honour, insisting estimates of the scale of the killing is exaggerated. And the country reacted furiously when France's parliament approved the legislation on Monday.
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Turkish Prime Minister calls the law 'discriminatory and racist'
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Turkey refutes Armenian claims that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in 1915 as the Ottoman Empire broke up
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Law would mean anyone who denies or ‘outrageously minimize’ the killings faces up to a year in prison and a fine of €45k
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Riot police guard French consulate in Turkey as tensions mount
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But Turkey says that there was no systematic campaign to kill Armenians and that many @placeholder also died during the chaotic disintegration of the empire.