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NSW MPS NOT WELCOME AT GALLIPOLI CENTENARY
Radio New Zealand
Aug 21 2013
Updated at 8:12 am today
The Turkish Government is to ban all members of the state parliament
in New South Wales from attending the centenary commemorations at
Gallipoli in 2015.
The move was a response to motions the NSW parliament passed in May,
officially recognising the Armenian genocide.
The ABC reports an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died in Ottoman
Turk-controlled territory between 1915 - 1922, but the Turks have
long denied that genocide occurred.
Turkish officials described as outrageous the motions passed by both
houses of the New South Wales parliament, that condemn the genocide.
The Foreign Ministry said the proponents of the motions will no longer
be welcome at the Gallipoli commemorations and the council at Gallipoli
has backed that.
AAP reports Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik was asked on ABC
Television whether the statement meant that Premier Barry O'Farrell and
other NSW MPs would be denied visas to attend the Gallipoli service.
"Yes," she said.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/217564/nsw-mps-not-welcome-at-gallipoli-centenary
From: Baghdasarian
Radio New Zealand
Aug 21 2013
Updated at 8:12 am today
The Turkish Government is to ban all members of the state parliament
in New South Wales from attending the centenary commemorations at
Gallipoli in 2015.
The move was a response to motions the NSW parliament passed in May,
officially recognising the Armenian genocide.
The ABC reports an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died in Ottoman
Turk-controlled territory between 1915 - 1922, but the Turks have
long denied that genocide occurred.
Turkish officials described as outrageous the motions passed by both
houses of the New South Wales parliament, that condemn the genocide.
The Foreign Ministry said the proponents of the motions will no longer
be welcome at the Gallipoli commemorations and the council at Gallipoli
has backed that.
AAP reports Turkish consul-general Gulseren Celik was asked on ABC
Television whether the statement meant that Premier Barry O'Farrell and
other NSW MPs would be denied visas to attend the Gallipoli service.
"Yes," she said.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/217564/nsw-mps-not-welcome-at-gallipoli-centenary
From: Baghdasarian