Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in a conference in Istanbul on December 23, 2011. Erdogan on December 23 accused France of committing “genocide” in Algeria after French lawmakers voted a bill criminalising the denial of Armenian genocide. “France massacred an estimated 15 percent of the Algerian population starting from 1945. This is genocide,” Erdogan told a news conference after the French move on the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman-era forces. AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
