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Algerian Prime Minister makes a commentary shocking Turkey

08 January 2012 00:46 (UTC +04:00)

Algerian PM called on Turkey not to bring agenda Algerian history in the relationships with France over so-called â€œarmenian genocideâ€.

Ahmed Ouyahia urged Turkey to stop trying to make political capital out of France’s killing of thousands of Algerians during the colonial period.

Speaking at the National Democracy Party congress Ouyahia said: "nobody has the right to make the blood of Algerians their business".

Turkish Primer Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: â€œAn estimated 15 per cent of the Algerian population was massacred by the French from 1945 onwards. This is a genocideâ€.

â€œThe actions of France in Algeria is genocide. If Sarkozy does not know about this genocide, let him ask it to his father - Pol Sarkozyâ€, - Erdogan said.