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  • Turkish ambassador to Sweden returns home in protest of resolution

    Xinhua General News Service
    March 12, 2010 Friday 11:55 AM EST


    Turkish ambassador to Sweden returns home in protest of genocide resolution

    ISTANBUL March 12


    Turkish Ambassador to Sweden Zergun Koruturk returned to Turkey on
    Friday, noting that the resolution passed in Swedish parliament
    Thursday recognizing the Armenian genocide was groundless.

    Local CNNTurk television quoted Koruturk, who arrived at Istanbul's
    Ataturk airport, as saying that it was not befitting of Sweden to pass
    such a resolution for the sake of its own elections.

    The Turkish ambassador had been called back to Ankara for consultation
    shortly after the Swedish Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution
    on Armenian allegations regarding the 1915 incidents with 131 votes
    against 130.

    Koruturk said the resolution "is groundless," adding that " Sweden is
    to hold elections in September. This resolution was brought up in 2008
    but delayed until now. This is going on because of the election
    period."

    She said Turkey and Sweden had enjoyed a perfect relations and Sweden
    had been the greatest supporter of Turkish membership in the European
    Union.

    On March 4, Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador to the United
    States following a U.S. congressional panel approved a resolution
    labeling the incidents of 1915 as "genocide."

    Turkey strongly rejects the genocide allegations and regards the
    events as civil strife in wartime which claimed lives of many Turks
    and Armenians.
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