Turkey cancels visit after genocide comment
Malaysia Sun
Friday 25th April, 2008
Turkey has cancelled a visit by Turkish minister Mehmet Aydin to Buenos Aires after the Argentinian government recognised the Armenian genocide.
Turkey's government has fiercely criticised Argentina for responding to a declaration by the Argentinian parliament referring to the genocide of Armenians by Turks.
Between 1915 and 1918 an estimated one-and-a-half million ethnic Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks.
The Armenians refer to the killings as genocide while Turkey has always contested the use of the term.
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