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Monday, February 06, 2012

Turkey summons Swiss envoy over genocide denial remarks

Turkey summons Swiss envoy over genocide denial remarks

ANKARA/ZURICH (Reuters) - Turkey summoned the Swiss ambassador on Monday to complain about a decision by Swiss officials to launch checks to see whether Turkey's EU affairs minister had breached the law by denying Ottoman Turks had committed genocide against Armenians nearly 100 years ago, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said.

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