Turkey cancels visit after genocide comment

Malaysia Sun, Malaysia
April 26 2008

Turkey cancels visit after genocide comment
Malaysia Sun
Friday 25th April, 2008

Turkey has cancelled a visit by Turkish minister Mehmet Aydin to
Buenos Aires after the Argentinian government recognised the Armenian
genocide.

Turkey’s government has fiercely criticised Argentina for responding
to a declaration by the Argentinian parliament referring to the
genocide of Armenians by Turks.

Between 1915 and 1918 an estimated one-and-a-half million ethnic
Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks.

The Armenians refer to the killings as genocide while Turkey has
always contested the use of the term.