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    Stockholm News, Sweden
    March 13 2010


    Turkish protests continues

    Politics | 2010-03-13 |

    The Swedish and Turkish foreign ministers condemned the decision of
    the Swedish Parliament to specify the atrocities against Armenians in
    1915 as genocide. In Turkey the protests continue - which is now also
    hitting trade relations. Swedish Ambassador Christer Asp in Ankara has
    received several emails from Turkish businessmen who have business
    with Sweden. The business men report that they have got commercial
    contracts broken and cancelled.

    `In a situation such as this it is to be expected,' says Asp to news agency TT.

    It was on Thursday that the parliament, with one votes margin adopted
    a resolution that the atrocities in 1915 against, among others,
    Armenians are considered to be genocide. Turkey immediately recalled
    its ambassador and denounced the decision. The Swedish-Turkish
    relations thus froze to ice.

    In Turkey today, there have been protests held against the decision,
    both outside the Honorary Consulate in Izmir and the Consulate General
    in Istanbul. The mailbox at the Swedish Embassy in Ankara has also
    been flooded with protest letters from individuals and organizations.

    `Some are worded in a way that I do not want to reproduce it in
    public. There is no threat, but no fine words about Sweden, if you
    know what I mean," says Asp.

    Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who persistently made it clear that the
    government's policy has not changed, and his Turkish colleague Ahmet
    Davutoglu, now meet at an informal multi-day meeting in northern
    Finland. The two ministers condemned the parliamentary
    genocide-resolution today.

    David Jonasson

    http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?N ID=4981
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