Turkey's Anatolia news agency says Ankara has suspended talks with Gaz de France on possible cooperation on a gas-pipeline project.
The move comes in reaction to a French bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey amounted to genocide, which Turkey denies.
The other four countries involved -- Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, and Hungary -- have already approved Gaz de France's participation in the pipeline, which will carry Caspian natural gas to EU countries via Turkey and the Balkans.
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