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    TURKEY SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR OVER OBAMA SPEECH ON ARMENIA

    Southeast European Times
    April 28 2009

    ANKARA, Turkey -- The foreign ministry has summoned US Ambassador to
    Ankara James Jeffrey over last week's speech by US President Barack
    Obama, marking the Armenian Remembrance Day of 1915, media reported
    on Monday (April 27th). In his speech last Friday, Obama did not use
    the word "genocide" to describe the killings of 1.5 million Armenian
    civilians by Ottoman Turks in 1915-1917. Instead, he branded the
    events as "one of the great atrocities of the 20th century". That
    stirred angry reactions from Turkey's political leaders. President
    Abdullah Gul told reporters that hundreds of thousands of Turks also
    lost their lives in the 1915 events. (Anadolu news agency, Hurriyet,
    Zaman - 27/04/09)
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