Can Sweden-US change the history?
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he has recalled Turkey’s ambassador to Stockholm over a Swedish parliament vote branding the World War One killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide. “We strongly condemn this resolution, which is made for political calculations. It does not correspond to the close friendship of our two nations. We are recalling our ambassador for consultations,” Erdogan said in a statement on his website.
The Swedish and Turkish foreign ministers condemned the decision of the Swedish Parliament to specify the atrocities against Armenians in 1915 as genocide. In Turkey the protests continue – which is now also hitting trade relations. Swedish Ambassador Christer Asp in Ankara has received several emails from Turkish businessmen who have business with Sweden. The business men report that they have got commercial contracts broken and cancelled.
It was on Thursday that the parliament, with one votes margin adopted a resolution that the atrocities in 1915 against, among others, Armenians are considered to be genocide. Turkey immediately recalled its ambassador and denounced the decision. The Swedish-Turkish relations thus froze to ice. We know that Swedish Government never see other genocides round the World but when its Turkey everyone wakes up from pretty sweat sleep.
In Turkey today, there have been protests held against the decision, both outside the Honorary Consulate in Izmir and the Consulate General in Istanbul. The mailbox at the Swedish Embassy in Ankara has also been flooded with protest letters from individuals and organizations.
“Some are worded in a way that I do not want to reproduce it in public. There is no threat, but no fine words about Sweden, if you know what I mean,” says Asp.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who persistently made it clear that the government’s policy has not changed, and his Turkish colleague Ahmet Davutoglu, now meet at an informal multi-day meeting in northern Finland. The two ministers condemned the parliamentary genocide-resolution today.
Can Sweden-US change the history? well everyone needs to know that not with voting, everyone should check history again and not to forget everybody wants a pie from this issue so lets see how they will use Armenia over the coming years. Image – wikipedia
