Turkologist says decision of France’s Senate unprecedented.

The decision of France's Senate was unprecedented as irrespective of Turkey's threats the Senate confronted them and adopted the bill penalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide, Turkologist Anush Hovhannissyan told a news conference January 25.

According to her, the Senate's decision has started having its impact on the inner-political life of Turkey as many Turkish parties, using this decision, strictly criticize the ruling party of that country.

"This decision cannot have an impact on Armenian-Turkish relations as there are no such relations," she said.

Hovhannissyan noted that not denying the fact of the Genocide the senators who were against the adoption of the bill were saying that the laws about history must not be brought to the political field.

"It is Turkey's diplomatic step which they use for quite a long time," she said.

The Turkologist said currently Turkish-French relations are in critical phase and no qualitative changes are expected. "This decision is more a wish to restrict Turkey," Hovhannissyan said.

Expert Vladimir Vardanyan noted that the majority of mass media were presenting the decision as a pre-electoral step.

"The positive side of the decision was that neither of the French senators disputed the fact of the Armenian Genocide," he said.