8 January: Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia has called on Turkey not to bring the issue of Algerian history in its dispute with France over genocide denial. Ahmed Ouyahia urged Turkey to stop trying to make political capital out of France's kill

Speaking after the recent vote in the French National Assembly Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan accused France of genocide in Algeria during the independence struggle.

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