Talk:Édouard Balladur

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Is Balladur Turkish, or was he just born in Turkey? J-C V 14:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

French Wikipedia seems to say his family was Armenian Catholic living in Smyrna for several centuries. john k 15:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Balladur has the French nationality otherwise he could not be a congressman (député). There is no evidence that he has a double nationality French-Turk although some strong opponents hinted at that. He is indeed from an old Catholic family of Smyrnia, but the Armenian descent is less than certain. --Geo115fr 16:11, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 08:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"From 1977 to 1986, he was president of Générale de Service Informatique (later merged into IBM Global Services)." This need reference. GSI has been merged into ADP in 1995 (http://www.fr.adp.com/groupe-adp-france.cfm) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.224.126.156 (talk) 12:40, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]