Turkish leaders tried on Friday to head off a consumer boycott of French goods and a mood of growing hostility towards France following a parliamentary vote on Armenian claims of Ottoman-era genocide.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has been blamed for stoking the threat of a boycott this week when he said French support for the claim “would change everything for France”. Calls for a boycott were made by some opposition figures and chambers of commerce, and a consumer lobby said the action would continue until France changed its stance.