Turkey 'strongly' Condemns Dutch MPs' Recognising Armenian 'genocide'
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published February 23, 2018 | 02:10 AM
Istanbul, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Feb, 2018 ) :Turkey responded firmly on Thursday to the recognition by Dutch lawmakers of the early 1900s massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as "genocide", a term Ankara has long rejected for describing the mass killings.
"We strongly condemn the decision taken today by the chamber of deputies of the Netherlands to recognise as genocide the events of 1915," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
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