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    Today's Zaman, Turkey
    March 31 2013

    Turkey strongly denies French singer Aznavour's claims against prime minister

    31 March 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, Ä°STANBUL


    The Turkish Foreign Ministry has strongly denied recent allegations of
    French-Armenian musician Charles Aznavour, who said the Turkish prime
    minister once said he hates Armenians and Greeks.

    Aznavour, who is Armenia's ambassador to Switzerland and permanent
    delegate to the United Nations office in Geneva, criticized Turkish
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an last week in a televised interview
    in Switzerland, without naming him. He claimed that the Turkish prime
    minister once said he hates Greeks and Armenians, stating that a prime
    minister cannot say such things.

    Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Levent Gümrükçü said on Saturday
    when asked by a reporter about Aznavour's claims that it is impossible
    to understand what his claims are based on. `We strongly reject this
    groundless and meaningless accusation,' he said. `The Turks have long
    coexisted peacefully with the Armenians and Greeks,' he added.

    Gümrükçü said, on the other hand, Turkey welcomes Aznavour's proposals
    on the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations as a world-famous
    `man of art and intellectual.'

    http://www.todayszaman.com/news-311275-turkey-strongly-denies-french-singer-aznavours-claims-against-prime-minister.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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