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 .
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 . Turkey says the deaths were due to war , disease and chaos -- not to a specific plan to kill Armenians . Genocide bill threatens to further destabilize relations between France and Turkey .