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  • ANKARA: 'Genocide' Severs Ties With Canada

    'GENOCIDE' SEVERS TIES WITH CANADA
    By Foreign News Desk, Istanbul

    Zaman Online, Turkey
    April 26 2006

    Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was harshly criticized by the
    Turkish administration over his assessment of the Armenian arguments is
    "genocide."

    A written statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said the
    statements made by the Canadian administration have had a negative
    impact on relations between the two countries, since the statements
    were not based on objective opinions.

    A decision issued by the Canadian parliament two years ago in support
    of the Armenian Dispora resulted in a period of weakened bilateral
    ties between the two governments, an obvious sign of the impact of
    such a statement, said a release from the Turkish government. The
    Canadian ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Foreign Ministry
    and issued the warning by the Turkish government.

    "Although the objective studies by eminent historians have proved
    the arguments over 'genocide' to be unquestionably groundless, it is
    only prejudice that would lead Harper to present such arguments as
    historical facts," the statement read.

    The statement also said that a Turkish military attache in Canada
    had been killed, and that a commercial attache and the ambassador
    had been injured in an assassination attempt carried out by a group
    of Armenians.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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