TURKISH OPPOSITION PROPOSES DEPORTING ILLEGAL ARMENIANS

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11:47 â~@¢ 16.03.10

As a sort of backlash from Sweden and US congressional panels passing
resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Canan Arıtman,
a deputy from Turkey’s largest opposition party, the Republican
People’s Party, proposed deporting all Armenian citizens living in
the country illegally.

On the matter of these resolutions, Turkey’s parliament convened a
closed-door session on March 15, attended by Turkey’s Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu.

According to Turkish daily Radikal, Republican People’s Party and
Nationalist Movement Party MPs proposed countering those resolutions
quite radically, such as recalling the Armenia-Turkey Protocols
from parliament and closing down the American Incirlik Air Base,
a key military base for the US.

In another move, Arıtman proposed that all Turkish national deputies
who voted in favor of the Armenian Genocide resolution in the
Swedish riksdag be deprived of Turkish citizenship, while the Swedish
parliamentarians voting for the resolution be denied entry to Turkey.

Davutoglu, responding to opposition demands to recall the Protocols
from parliament, said that those documents are tools to eliminating
Turkey’s worldwide image of an irreconciliable state, and they will
continue to remain in the parliament.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress