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Turkey Cancels Summit with Sweden over Armenian Genocide Resolution
By Scott Peterson
The Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 2010
"Anger over events of nearly a century ago has prompted Turkey to cancel a top-level summit in Sweden next week, in the aftermath of a decision by the Swedish Parliament to declare the mass deaths of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide. 'We strongly condemn this resolution, which is made for political calculations,' said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who canceled his visit to Stockholm next Wednesday for a Sweden-Turkey summit. 'It does not correspond to the close friendship of our two nations. Those who think that historical facts and Turkey’s views of its own past will change with the decisions made on the basis of political interests of foreign parliaments are seriously deluded,' he said. Turkey recalled its ambassador from Stockholm on Thursday, just a week after recalling its envoy from Washington for consultations after the US House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a similar non-binding resolution. ... The resolutions in both Sweden and the US congressional committee passed by just one vote, with some politicians strongly criticizing the move. [...]"