Despite threats from official Ankara, France’s National Assembly passed a bill making it a crime to deny the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

Around 50 lawmakers from all parties backed the bill and only a half dozen voted against. The bill now faces a vote in the French Senate.

If passed and signed into law, the bill would impose a 45,000 euro fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies the 1915 Genocide.

Turkey has already recalled its Ambassador to France, as promised.