TURKEY: NO AMBASSADOR RETURNS TO U.S.

CCTV
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March 10 2010
China

Turkey’s Prime Minister says the country will not send back its
ambassador to the US until its resolution branding the 1915-era
killings of Armenians by Turkish forces as "genocide" remains open.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the future attitude of the US is very
important. Turkey recalled its ambassador to the US, Namik Tan, minutes
after a US congressional panel approved a resolution concerning Turkey
last Thursday.

The resolution calls the incidents of 1915 "genocide". Turkey strongly
rejects such allegations and regards the event as wartime civil strife
which claimed the lives of both Turks and Armenians.

Turkey and Armenia signed two protocols last October to normalize
relations. However, neither country’s parliament has passed them.