TURKEY AMBASSADOR WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN

armradio.am
25.03.2010 11:24

Turkey has announced that its ambassador will return to Sweden,
despite a vote by parliament in Stockholm to recognize as genocide
the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, the foreign minister
said Wednesday, The Local reports.

Ambassador Zergun Koruturk will "again take up her job this week or
early next week at the latest", Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told
Turkish television channel CNN-Turk.

The Swedish parliament on March 11th recognized the massacres of
Armenians and other ethnic groups during World War I as genocide,
immediately sparking a diplomatic row with Turkey and prompting Ankara
to call back its ambassador.

The Swedish government had opposed the resolution.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt apologized to Ankara,
a move which his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan called
"very positive."

Davutoglu on Wednesday welcomed Stockholm’s position and called the
vote "absurd".

Davutoglu said he was wary of sending the Turkish ambassador back to
Washington as the two cases were different.

"The Swedes clearly apologized," he said.