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SWEDEN APPROVES RESOLUTION ON "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
Reuters
March 11 2010
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish parliament approved on Thursday a
resolution that brands the killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces
during World War One as genocide.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved last week a
nonbinding measure condemning killings that took place nearly 100
years ago, in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey was infuriated and recalled its ambassador after the
announcement.
Swedish television programme Aktuellt reported that the Turkish
ambassador in Stockholm would be recalled to Ankara.
The issue of the Armenian massacres is deeply sensitive in Turkey.
Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks but vehemently denies that up to 1.5 million died and that it
amounted to genocide -- a term employed by many Western historians
and some foreign parliaments.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Reuters
March 11 2010
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish parliament approved on Thursday a
resolution that brands the killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces
during World War One as genocide.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee approved last week a
nonbinding measure condemning killings that took place nearly 100
years ago, in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkey was infuriated and recalled its ambassador after the
announcement.
Swedish television programme Aktuellt reported that the Turkish
ambassador in Stockholm would be recalled to Ankara.
The issue of the Armenian massacres is deeply sensitive in Turkey.
Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks but vehemently denies that up to 1.5 million died and that it
amounted to genocide -- a term employed by many Western historians
and some foreign parliaments.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress