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    NSW MPS NOT WELCOME AT GALLIPOLI CENTENARY

    Radio New Zealand
    Aug 21 2013

    Updated at 8:12 am today

    The Turkish Government is to ban all members of the state parliament
    in New South Wales from attending the centenary commemorations at
    Gallipoli in 2015.

    The move was a response to motions the NSW parliament passed in May,
    officially recognising the Armenian genocide.

    The ABC reports an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died in Ottoman
    Turk-controlled territory between 1915 - 1922, but the Turks have
    long denied that genocide occurred.

    Turkish officials described as outrageous the motions passed by both
    houses of the New South Wales parliament, that condemn the genocide.

    The Foreign Ministry said the proponents of the motions will no longer
    be welcome at the Gallipoli commemorations and the council at Gallipoli
    has backed that.

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

    "Yes," she said.

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/217564/nsw-mps-not-welcome-at-gallipoli-centenary


    From: Baghdasarian
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