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TURKEY BANS AUSTRALIAN MPS OVER GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
Assyrian International News Agency AINA
Aug 21 2013
(AAP) -- Turkey warns some NSW MPs will not be welcome at the
Gallipoli service after state parliament officially recognised the
Ottoman genocide of the Armenians earlier in the year.
The NSW legislative council in May passed a motion calling for the
official recognition of the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek genocides.
Turkey strongly condemned the move and said the motion was not
compatible with historic facts.
"Although the solid friendly relations existing between the peoples of
Turkey and Australia will not deteriorate because of this unilateral
decision ... its negative repercussions are nonetheless inevitable,"
Turkey's foreign ministry said in May, which ABC television reported
on Wednesday.
The proponents of such initiatives would "doubtlessly be deprived of
the hospitality and friendship that we will never withhold from the
people of Australia", the ministry warned. Digital Pass $1 for first
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"These persons who try to damage the spirit of Canakkale/Gallipoli
will also not have their place in the Canakkale ceremonies where we
commemorate together our sons lying side by side in our soil," it said.
Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik was asked whether the statement
meant that Premier Barry O'Farrell and other NSW MPs would be denied
visas to attend the Gallipoli service.
"Yes," she told ABC television.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au
http://www.aina.org/news/20130821140330.htm
Assyrian International News Agency AINA
Aug 21 2013
(AAP) -- Turkey warns some NSW MPs will not be welcome at the
Gallipoli service after state parliament officially recognised the
Ottoman genocide of the Armenians earlier in the year.
The NSW legislative council in May passed a motion calling for the
official recognition of the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek genocides.
Turkey strongly condemned the move and said the motion was not
compatible with historic facts.
"Although the solid friendly relations existing between the peoples of
Turkey and Australia will not deteriorate because of this unilateral
decision ... its negative repercussions are nonetheless inevitable,"
Turkey's foreign ministry said in May, which ABC television reported
on Wednesday.
The proponents of such initiatives would "doubtlessly be deprived of
the hospitality and friendship that we will never withhold from the
people of Australia", the ministry warned. Digital Pass $1 for first
28 Days
"These persons who try to damage the spirit of Canakkale/Gallipoli
will also not have their place in the Canakkale ceremonies where we
commemorate together our sons lying side by side in our soil," it said.
Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik was asked whether the statement
meant that Premier Barry O'Farrell and other NSW MPs would be denied
visas to attend the Gallipoli service.
"Yes," she told ABC television.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au
http://www.aina.org/news/20130821140330.htm