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    SR International - Radio Sweden
    March 14 2010


    Turkey Protests against Swedish Vote


    People have been protesting outside Swedish consulates in Turkey,
    following the Swedish parliament's decision on Thursday to recognise
    as genocide the deaths of Armenians and other ethnic groups in the
    Ottoman Empire.

    The reactions in Turkey "have been strong on every level" Christer
    Asp, Sweden's ambassador in Ankara told Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

    Visit Cancelled, Ambassador Recalled (2010-03-12)
    And news agency TT reports that the mailbox of the Swedish Embassy in
    Ankara is overflowing with protest letters from private persons as
    well as organisations.

    "Some of them are formulated in a way that I would not want to express
    in public. There are no threats, but no nice words about Sweden, if
    you see what I mean," Ambassador Christer Asp told TT.

    The embassy has also received e-mails from Turkish businessmen who say
    they have cancelled contracts with Swedish companies, in protest of
    the standpoint in the Swedish parliament.

    The Turkish Ambassador in Stockholm has been recalled, and Prime
    Minister Erdogan has cancelled his planned visit to Sweden next week.
    Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt calls the parliaments decision
    "deeply regrettable" and says that it will make the reconciliation in
    the region more difficult.

    http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International /nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&ProgramID54 &Artikel=3506928
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