Turkey on Thursday praised the positive attitude adopted by the new French president toward relations with Ankara, saying that sanctions imposed on Paris would no longer be implemented, Agence France Presse reports.
New French President Francois Hollande promised to open a "new page" in relations, which hit a low over French objections to Turkey's bid to join the European Union and controversial legislation in France seeking to make it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide.
On Wednesday, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Hollande on the sidelines of a UN meeting in Brazil, when the two leaders agreed to turn a "new page" in relations, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Erdogan also invited Hollande to make the first official visit to Turkey by a French president for 20 years, and received a positive response, Anatolia said.
