French Senate passes bill criminalizing public denial of Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 . Armenians say Turks committed genocide against more than a million Armenians in waning days of Ottoman Empire . It argues instead that hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians and Muslim Turks died from intercommunal violence , disease and general chaos -- not from a specific plan to eliminate Armenians -- around the bloody battlefields of World War I . ` Score: 6 Genocide bill threatens to further destabilize relations between France and Turkey .
French Senate passes bill criminalizing public denial of Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 . Armenians say Turks committed genocide against more than a million Armenians in waning days of Ottoman Empire . Score: 6 Genocide bill threatens to further destabilize relations between France and Turkey .