Faster, faster: France and Turkey at loggerheads

In 2001, France recognized the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire nearly 90 years earlier as a genocide. Now, France is about to criminalize the denial of any genocide, including the Armenian one. And the Turks are outraged. Faced with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's open hostility to Turkey's all-but stagnant bid to join the European Union, and buoyed by a fast-growing economy,