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  • Turkey warns US on WWI issue

    CCTV, China
    March 6 2010


    Turkey warns US on WWI issue

    2010-03-06 08:43 BJT

    Turkey is warning the United States that there will be negative
    diplomatic consequences if it doesn't impede a US resolution branding
    the killing of Armenians during World War I as genocide.

    Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country would
    assess what measures it would take, and calls the resolution a "big
    mistake." He also says chances of its parliament ratifying peace
    protocols with Armenia were jeopardised by a U.S. congressional panel
    vote for the resolution. Minutes after the vote, Turkey withdrew its
    ambassador from Washington.

    Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
    Turks. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the death
    toll has been inflated and those killed were victims of civil war and
    unrest.

    http://english.cctv.com/program/world widewatch/20100306/101085.shtml
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