TURKEY’S ENVOY RETURNS TO SWEDEN AFTER ARMENIA VOTE

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30.03.2010 15:29

Turkey’s senior diplomat returned to Sweden on Tuesday after
consultations in Ankara on the decision of the Swedish parliament to
adopt a resolution on the Armenian Genocide, Anadolu Agency reports.

Zergun Koruturk, Turkey’s ambassadress to Sweden, told reporters
that she was going back to Sweden after she had held consultations in
Ankara on Swedish parliament’s adopting the resolution acknowledging
Armenian Genocide.

"Calling back an ambassador to his/her country for consultations is
a serious reaction, and even a protest, in diplomacy," she said.

Koruturk said Turkey showed that reaction and the Swedish government
did no way approve the decision of the parliament.

"The Swedish constitution authorizes the government to deal with
foreign policy, and therefore this decision is only recommendatory,"
she said.

Koruturk said the Swedish government had clearly stated that it would
not implement that decision.

Koruturk said then, Turkey showed a political will that it was time
that the senior diplomat went back to Sweden.

"My return to Sweden is a political decision, just as my return to
Turkey," she said.

Koruturk said every one had thought that all conditions had emerged
for her return to Sweden.

"We will altogether see what they will do to compensate this mistake,
and I hope the Swedish government will do its best," she also said.