Friday, September 23, 2005

EUobserver.com-Brussels clashes with Turks on free speech and Cyprus

"Brussels clashes with Turks on free speech and Cyprus
23.09.2005 - 17:42 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Harsh words were fired from Brussels on Friday as the commission reacted strongly to a Turkish court's suspension of a conference on the Armenian massacre. Meanwhile Turkey has slammed an EU counter declaration on Cyprus.

The decision yesterday (22 September) by an Istanbul court to cancel a conference on the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915, sparked a commission spokeswoman to speak of 'yet another provocation'. "

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