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    Daily Post (Liverpool)
    September 29, 2005, Thursday

    EU POSTPONES TURKEY VOTE


    THE European Parliament, frustrated over Turkey's refusal to
    recognise Cyprus, postponed a vote yesterday to ratify Turkey's
    customs union with the EU, a requirement of Ankara's bid for
    membership in the 25-member bloc.

    Days before the scheduled start of EU membership talks, MEPs also
    called on Ankara to recognise the 1915-1923 killings of Armenians as
    a genocide, which Turkey vehemently denies.

    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan immediately dismissed the
    non-binding European resolution on the killings of Armenians, saying:
    "It does not matter whether they took such a decision or not. We will
    continue on our way."

    Armenians say that 1.5 million of their countrymen were killed by
    Ottoman Turks.

    Turkey denies that the massacres were genocide, saying the death toll
    is inflated and Armenians were killed in civil unrest as the Ottoman
    Empire collapsed
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