TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO RETURN TO SWEDEN SOON:

CCTV, China
March 25 2010

ANKARA, March 24 (Xinhua) — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
said on Wednesday that Turkey’s Ambassador in Stockholm Zergun
Koruturk, will return to Sweden at the beginning of next week.

Speaking in a program on CNN Turk TV channel, Davutoglu said that
Koruturk, who was recalled after the Swedish Parliament adopted a bill
on the incidents of 1915 on March 11, will go back to Stockholm soon.

"The cases in the United States and Sweden are not the same. The
Swedish government clearly opposed the adoption of a bill on the
incidents of 1915 at the Swedish Parliament. The Swedish government
clearly demonstrated its stand on the bill regarding the incidents
of 1915," Davutoglu stressed.

Within this frame, statements from Sweden were satisfactory,
Davutoglu added.

On March 4, Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador to the United
States following a U.S. congressional panel approved a resolution
labeling the incidents of 1915 as "genocide."

Turkey strongly rejects the genocide allegations and regards the
events as civil strife in wartime which claimed lives of many Turks
and Armenians.

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