Thursday, October 05, 2006

The Raw Story | Turks in Netherlands reject politics over Armenian issue, report

"Turks in Netherlands reject politics over Armenian issue, report

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Thursday October 5, 2006

Amsterdam- The large Turkish minority in the Netherlands is considering a boycott of the Dutch elections in November as a result of pressure on Turkish candidates to acknowledge that Armenians suffered genocide in 1915, the daily Volkskrant reported Thursday. 'Many of the 400,000 Turks in the Netherlands regard themselves as no longer welcome and are turning their backs on politics,' Sabri Kenan Bagci, chairman of the IOT organization that speaks for Turkish interests, told the daily Volkskrant."

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