Turkey 's leader accused France of `` genocide '' last century during the war in Algeria , a ratcheting up of rhetoric over controversial French legislation that would criminalize any public denial of what the bill calls the Armenian genocide last century in Ottoman Turkey . `` In Algeria , an estimated 15 percent of the population had been subjected to the massacre of French from 1945 on . This is genocide , '' Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a conference in Istanbul on Friday . `` Algerians were burnt en masse in ovens . They were martyred mercilessly . If French President Mr. ( Nicolas ) Sarkozy does not know about this genocide , he should ask his father Paul Sarkozy . His father Paul Sarkozy served as a soldier in the French legion in Algeria in 1940s . '' Once a French colony , guerrillas in the North African nation fought a bloody war against French rule from 1954 to 1962 . The French Foreign Ministry shot back , saying `` we deplore excessive use of formulas and personal attacks that do not meet up to the standards of our mutual interest and of our relations . France recalls that it assumes with clarity and transparency its duty to remember the tragedies that have marked its history . '' At the same time , it cited Foreign Minister Alain Juppe 's call for `` measure and restraint , '' which , he said , `` are more than ever necessary under the current circumstances . '' Turkey is angered over the bill , passed by the French National Assembly on Thursday and now under review by the French Senate . Immediately after the vote , Erdogan announced that Turkey is reviewing its ties with France . He said Turkey is recalling its Paris ambassador to Ankara for consultations , is canceling bilateral visits , and wo n't cooperate with France in joint projects within the European Union . It is also halting `` political consultations '' with France , stopping bilateral military activities and joint exercises , and canceling permission granted annually for all military overflights , landings and take-offs . Erdogan hopes the Senate fails to pass the so-called Armenian genocide bill but he warns that if it does , Turkey will initiate more measures toward France . The Turkish-Armenian controversy over the massacres of last century has reverberated wherever diaspora communities representing both groups exist . Armenian groups and many scholars argue that starting in 1915 , Turks committed genocide , when more than a million ethnic Armenians were massacred in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire . The Republic of Armenia has hailed the French move . But modern-day Turkey officially denies that a genocide took place , arguing instead that hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians and Muslim Turks died in intercommunal violence around the bloody battlefields of World War I. Sarkozy , speaking on TV from the Czech Republic capital of Prague , explained that his country does n't need an OK from another nation to develop its policies . He was attending the funeral of late Czech leader Vaclav Havel . `` In every circumstance we must remain cool headed and calm . France alone determines its politics . France does not ask for authorization . France has convictions : human rights , the respect for history . Every country must make the effort to revisit its past . France does not give lessons to anyone nor does it receive lessons from anyone , '' Sarkozy said . Saying that five million Muslims in live in France , Erdogan noted the `` dangerous dimensions that racism , discrimination and animosity against Muslims reached in France and Europe . French President Sarkozy got the ambition to win the elections with animosity against Turks and Muslims and unfortunately he does n't refrain from playing such dangerous games . '' Turkey and France are NATO allies , and , according to official Turkish statistics , the volume of trade between Turkey and France from January to the end of October this year was more than $ 13.5 billion . The genocide debate is an annual source of tension between Turkey and the United States , also two NATO allies . The White House , for example , annually beats back efforts in Congress to pass a resolution which would formally recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians as genocide .
The Foreign Ministry slams 'personal attacks ' Turkey is incensed over the National Assembly bill . Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed a new law that would allow Turks to be extradited from other countries if they are accused of terrorism.