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    TURKEY BANS AUSTRALIAN MPS OVER GENOCIDE RECOGNITION

    Assyrian International News Agency AINA
    Aug 21 2013

    (AAP) -- Turkey warns some NSW MPs will not be welcome at the
    Gallipoli service after state parliament officially recognised the
    Ottoman genocide of the Armenians earlier in the year.

    The NSW legislative council in May passed a motion calling for the
    official recognition of the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek genocides.

    Turkey strongly condemned the move and said the motion was not
    compatible with historic facts.

    "Although the solid friendly relations existing between the peoples of
    Turkey and Australia will not deteriorate because of this unilateral
    decision ... its negative repercussions are nonetheless inevitable,"
    Turkey's foreign ministry said in May, which ABC television reported
    on Wednesday.

    The proponents of such initiatives would "doubtlessly be deprived of
    the hospitality and friendship that we will never withhold from the
    people of Australia", the ministry warned. Digital Pass $1 for first
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    "These persons who try to damage the spirit of Canakkale/Gallipoli
    will also not have their place in the Canakkale ceremonies where we
    commemorate together our sons lying side by side in our soil," it said.

    Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik was asked whether the statement
    meant that Premier Barry O'Farrell and other NSW MPs would be denied
    visas to attend the Gallipoli service.

    "Yes," she told ABC television.

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au

    http://www.aina.org/news/20130821140330.htm

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