Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, says a controversial genocide bill passed by the French parliament is "racist".

The proposed law makes it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide.

Turkey says relations between the countries will be seriously affected if French President Nicolas Sarkozy signs it into law.

Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught reports from Turkey's main city, Istanbul.