{"id":17683,"date":"2010-03-14T06:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2014-01-05T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T16:07:50","slug":"swedens-fm-denounces-parliament-vote-on-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/03\/14\/swedens-fm-denounces-parliament-vote-on-armenian-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden&#8217;s FM Denounces Parliament Vote on Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Carl Bildt tells reporters vote was &#8216;regrettable&#8217; and &#8216;serves no useful purpose&#8217;<span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dt><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sweden_carl_bildt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sweden_carl_bildt.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/sweden_carl_bildt-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl>\n<dd>Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (Photo: AP)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has denounced a parliamentary resolution that recognizes the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bildt held talks with his Turkish counterpart late Friday on the sidelines of a meeting of European foreign ministers in Finland.\u00a0 He told reporters on Saturday that the vote in Sweden&#8217;s parliament\u00a0was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#8220;regrettable&#8221; and &#8220;serves no useful purpose.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swedish lawmakers by a narrow margin Thursday passed the resolution recognizing the &#8220;genocide of Armenians.&#8221;\u00a0 Days earlier, there was a similar vote by a U.S. congressional committee.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey condemned both measures and recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Armenians say Ottoman Turks slaughtered as many as 1.5 million people from 1915 until 1923.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey recognizes that Armenians were killed, but says the death toll is greatly exaggerated.\u00a0 It says the Armenians died in a civil war that accompanied the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday that parliaments should not try to define history.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www1.voanews.com\/english\/news\/asia\/Swedens-FM-Denounces-Parliament-Vote-on-Armenian-Genocide-87581162.html\">www1.voanews.com<\/span>, 13 March 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Bildt tells reporters vote was &#8216;regrettable&#8217; and &#8216;serves no useful purpose&#8217; Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt (Photo: AP) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has denounced a parliamentary resolution that recognizes the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. 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