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    Malaysia Sun, Malaysia
    April 26 2008


    Turkey cancels visit after genocide comment
    Malaysia Sun
    Friday 25th April, 2008



    Turkey has cancelled a visit by Turkish minister Mehmet Aydin to
    Buenos Aires after the Argentinian government recognised the Armenian
    genocide.

    Turkey's government has fiercely criticised Argentina for responding
    to a declaration by the Argentinian parliament referring to the
    genocide of Armenians by Turks.

    Between 1915 and 1918 an estimated one-and-a-half million ethnic
    Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks.

    The Armenians refer to the killings as genocide while Turkey has
    always contested the use of the term.
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