The French Senate voted 127 to 86 to approve a bill that would make denying the Armenian Genocide a crime . . . the law was approved by the French National Assembly, the lower house of French parliament, in late December . . . the law would punish people who deny that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against its Armenian population in 1915 with a maximum one-year prison sentence and an almost $60,000 fine . . . Turkey has condemned the law and has already closed its airspace to the French military and banned the French navy from its territorial waters . . . the bill must be signed by President Nicholas Sarkozy and is part of a campaign promise to the famous Armenian-French singer Charles Aznavour . . . the Turkish ambassador to Paris, Tahsin Burcuoglu, has threatened a "total rupture" of relations between the two countries if the bill is signed . . . bilateral trade between France and Turkey was $15.5 billion in 2010 . . . support from Aznavour could help Sarkozy win the votes of around 500,000 French-Armenian voters in the upcoming presidential elections . . . however, because the Socialist party controls the Senate and supported passage of the bill, their candidate François Hollande, who is currently leading in the polls, could pull votes from Sarkozy among this voter bloc . . . Ankara is expected to expand diplomatic and economic retaliation against France after Sarkozy signs the bill and will likely hurt French companies operating in Turkey and lead to a reduction in trade.