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Thu 03 Mar 2010Turkey recalls envoy to Sweden
Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan today said he had recalled Turkey's ambassador to Stockholm over a Swedish parliament vote branding the WW1 killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide.
"We strongly condemn this resolution, which is made for political calculations. It does not correspond to the close friendship of our two nations. We are recalling our ambassador for consultations," mR Erdogan said in a statement on his website.
"We are cancelling the Turkey-Sweden summit of March 17," the statement added.
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