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Argentina ‘genocide’ bill against spirit of relations, warns Ankara

December 2nd, 2006 by

The Turkish capital has condemned the approval of a bill by the House of Representatives of Argentina in which it decided to mark April 24 as “The Action Day for Tolerance and Respect between Peoples for the Memory of Armenian Genocide.”

Ankara labeled the Argentinean move as being incompatible not only with historical fact but with international law.

The Foreign Ministry in a statement expressed regret over the fact that such bills were being approved by accepting groundless Armenian allegations as historical truths while ignoring — rather than lending support to — the Turkish government’s offer to set up a joint commission of Turkish and Armenian historians to examine the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I. [Read More]

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