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    GUL SLAMS SWEDEN OVER ARMENIAN 'GENOCIDE' PUBLICITY

    Press TV
    March 12 2010
    Iran

    Turkish President Abdullah Gul has criticized Stockholm over a Swedish
    parliament resolution that branded the World War I killing of Armenians
    during the Ottoman Empire as 'genocide.'

    "The resolution on Armenian allegations which was approved by the
    Swedish Parliament does not have any credibility. Those who made this
    decision and voted in favor of the resolution were not historians,"
    Gul said on Thursday.

    Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday,
    claiming that the 1915 killing of Armenians in Turkey amounted to
    genocide. The resolution was passed by a very narrow margin, with 131
    parliamentarians voting in favor and 130 against, with 88 abstaining
    in the 349-seat assembly.

    Despite Armenian claims that the killing of over a million Armenians
    between 1915 and 1923 were the result of an orchestrated campaign by
    Ottoman Turks, Turkish officials strongly reject the idea and the
    genocide label. They insist far fewer Armenians died and that they
    were killed in a civil war in which Turks also died.

    Ankara points to historical evidence, ignored by Armenian lobbyists and
    their Western supporters, that puts the figure of Armenian victims
    at 300,000 and also makes clear that nearly as many Ottoman Turks
    were killed in the civil unrest that led to the downfall of the
    Ottoman Empire.

    US observers have also pointed to the close association of the
    influential Armenian lobby in the US with the powerful Israeli lobby in
    pushing through the symbolic resolution as a general publicity campaign
    against the Muslim state of Turkey, which has become one of the
    leading critics of violent Israeli policies against the Palestinians.

    Ankara and Yerevan signed an agreement last October to normalize
    relations, but their parliaments have yet to ratify them to end a
    century of hostility.
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