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Turkish Consumers’ Union calls for U.S. product boycott
12.10.2007 18:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish Consumers’ Union called for a boycott on
U.S.-made products in response to adoption of the Armenian Genocide
Resolution by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

"We decided not to use U.S.-made products to protest the approval of
the resolution,’ said Bulent Deniz, a spokesperson for the Turkish
Consumers’ Union on Thursday, Xinhua reports.

In protest to the House Committee’s decision, cinemas screening
American films were closed, McDonalds employees did not appear at
work, Spiderman and Barbie dolls were burnt in some shops in Turkey.