"Armenian rebuke deals blow to Turks' EU ambition
By Stephen Castle in Brussels
Published: 24 September 2005
Turkey received a direct rebuke from the European Commission yesterday after a court ruling prompted the cancellation of a conference of historians to discuss the massacre of Armenians early in the last century.
Coming just 10 days before Ankara is due to open EU membership negotiations the judgement prompted an unusually blunt condemnation from the Commission, which described it as 'yet another provocation'.
Last night efforts were under way to salvage the conference and bypass the legal ruling by holding it today at a new location."
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