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  • ANKARA: Turkey's Envoy Returns To Sweden After Armenia Issue

    TURKEY'S ENVOY RETURNS TO SWEDEN AFTER ARMENIA ISSUE

    www.worldbulletin.net
    March 30 2010
    Turkey

    Turkey's senior diplomat returned to Sweden after consultations in
    Ankara on the decision of the Swedish parliament to adopt a resolution
    on the incidents of 1915.

    Tuesday, 30 March 2010 13:10

    Turkey's senior diplomat returned to Sweden on Tuesday after
    consultations in Ankara on the decision of the Swedish parliament to
    adopt a resolution on the incidents of 1915.

    Zergun Koruturk, Turkey's ambassadress to Sweden, told reporters
    that she was going back to Sweden after she had held consultations in
    Ankara on Swedish parliament's adopting the resolution acknowledging
    Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915.

    "Calling back an ambassador to his/her country for consultations is
    a serious reaction, and even a protest, in diplomacy," she said.

    Koruturk said Turkey showed that reaction and the Swedish government
    did no way approve the decision of the parliament.

    "The Swedish constitution authorizes the government to deal with
    foreign policy, and therefore this decision is only recommendatory,"
    she said.

    Koruturk said the Swedish government had clearly stated that it would
    not implement that decision.

    Ambassadress Koruturk flew to Turkey by the first flight immediately
    after adoption of the resolution.

    Foreign ministers of the two countries met in Finland afterwards,
    and Swedish prime minister called Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    and apologized for developments.

    "Therefore, many things have passed since that day, and it has been
    seen that this is a wrong decision and the government has clearly
    showed that it will not implement it," she said.

    Koruturk said then, Turkey showed a political will that it was time
    that the senior diplomat went back to Sweden.

    "My return to Sweden is a political decision, just as my return to
    Turkey," she said.

    Koruturk said every one had thought that all conditions had emerged
    for her return to Sweden.

    "We will altogether see what they will do to compensate this mistake,
    and I hope the Swedish government will do its best," she also said.

    Swedish Parliament approved on March 11 a resolution on Armenian
    allegations regarding 1915 incidents.

    The resolution was approved with 131 votes against 130.

    The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs also
    approved the resolution on Armenian allegations regarding incidents
    of 1915 earlier this month.

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

    Turkey and Armenia signed two protocols on October 10, 2009 to
    normalize relations between the two countries. The protocols envisage
    the two countries to establish diplomatic ties and open the border
    that has been close since 1993.

    Turkey and Armenia also agreed to take steps to operate a
    sub-commission on impartial scientific examination of the historical
    records and archive to define existing problems and formulate
    recommendations, in which Armenian, Turkish as well as Swiss and
    other international experts would take part.

    However, on January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of Armenia
    declared a decision of constitutional conformity on the protocols.

    Turkey thought the fifth article of Armenian Constitutional Court's
    verdict regarding the protocols was against the target and basis of
    the protocols.
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