Hamsayeh.Net – Iran
March 13 2010

The Turkish government has been a vocal critic of the Israeli genocide
on the people of Gaza in 2008.

March 13, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) – The Turkish government once again
recalled its ambassador from a country that voted in favour of
labelling the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the
First World War as genocide.

This time it was the Swedish parliament that voted in favour of the
resolution following a similar move by Washington last week. Ankara
never accepts the mass killings of Armenians as genocide. It says such
a historical event did take place but not as many as some people claim
to be one and half million who lost their lives.

Last week Ankara recalled its ambassador from Washington for
consultations and a similar action against Sweden this week shows that
Turkey is very much upset with those decisions. `We strongly condemn
this resolution, which is made for political calculations; it does not
correspond to the close friendship of our two nations.

We are recalling our ambassador for consultations,’ Turkish Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement, referring to the Swedish
parliament vote as reported by Reuters. Turkey also cancelled a March
17 joint Turkey-Sweden meeting as sign of protest against the Swedish
parliament decision. The West has recent months tried to pressure
Turkey over the neighbouring Armenia.

The Turkish government has been a vocal critic of the Israeli genocide
on the people of Gaza in 2008. The Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan
holding a press conference with the Israeli official Shimon Peres
blamed the Israeli armed forces for committing genocide against
Palestinians and dashed out of the conference in anger.

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