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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 11702577" data-attributes="member: 218596">Turkey accuses France of genocide in colonial AlgeriaThe Turkish prime minister has accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria.     <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16314373#story_continues_2" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16314373#story_continues_2</a>      "In Algeria from 1945, an  estimated 15% of the population was massacred by the French. This is a  genocide," he said. "The Algerians were burned en masse in ovens. They  were martyred mercilessly."         He added: "The vote in the French parliament has shown how  dangerous racism, discrimination and Islamophobia have become in France  and Europe."        France invaded Algeria in 1830 and it remained under French rule until independence in 1962.         The number of people killed in the eight-year independence  war from 1954-1962 varies widely according to different sources, ranging  from 300,000 to more than one million.</blockquote>

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