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Turkey criticizes Edinburgh's Armenian bill |
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Friday, 25 November 2005ANKARA - Speaking at a weekly press briefing on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan has criticized the approval by the Edinburgh City Council (United Kingdom) last week of an Armenian bill concerning the so-called genocide allegedly committed by the Ottomans calling the decision "groundless and divorced from reality".
Tan stressed that in spite of Turkish officials' efforts and the Turkish people's campaign to prevent such an initiative, the council had still passed the bill supporting biased Armenian allegations.
The Armenian lobbying groups made a strong pressure on the Council while the Turkish British opposed the decision.
The Armenians name the ethnic conflicts in 1915 'genocide'. Turkey has trejected the allegations. The Armenian Ottomans rioted during the First World War and massacred more than 520,000 Turkish and Kurdish people in 1915. The Istanbul Government decided to relocate some of the Armenian population in the Eastern provinces. Thosands of Armenians were killed in the communal clashes and many more died due to the war and weather conditions.
JTW and news agencies |
Friday, 25 November 2005
Edinburg and Armenian Issue
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