The French Senate is to vote by the end of the month on a bill making it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians was genocide, reports say.
Turkey rejects the term "genocide" to describe the killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16.
Armenians say 1.5 million people were either slaughtered or died of starvation or disease when they were deported en masse from eastern Anatolia. Turkey says the number was closer to 300,000.
France is one of more than 20 countries that have formally recognised the killings as genocide.
Sources:
BBC News
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