‘GENOCIDE’ SEVERS TIES WITH CANADA
By Foreign News Desk, Istanbul
Zaman Online, Turkey
April 26 2006
Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was harshly criticized by the
Turkish administration over his assessment of the Armenian arguments is
“genocide.”
A written statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said the
statements made by the Canadian administration have had a negative
impact on relations between the two countries, since the statements
were not based on objective opinions.
A decision issued by the Canadian parliament two years ago in support
of the Armenian Dispora resulted in a period of weakened bilateral
ties between the two governments, an obvious sign of the impact of
such a statement, said a release from the Turkish government. The
Canadian ambassador to Ankara was summoned to the Foreign Ministry
and issued the warning by the Turkish government.
“Although the objective studies by eminent historians have proved
the arguments over ‘genocide’ to be unquestionably groundless, it is
only prejudice that would lead Harper to present such arguments as
historical facts,” the statement read.
The statement also said that a Turkish military attache in Canada
had been killed, and that a commercial attache and the ambassador
had been injured in an assassination attempt carried out by a group
of Armenians.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
