Sweden`s Parliament Recognizes The Genocide Against The Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks

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Turkey protests Sweden Armenia 'genocide' vote

Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Sweden after the parliament voted narrowly to describe as genocide the killing of Armenians in World War I.
The Turkish government condemned the resolution, saying it was "based upon major errors and without foundation".
The Swedish government opposed the opposition resolution but it passed by one vote after some MPs voted against party lines.
It comes days after a US congressional panel passed a similar resolution.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a visit to Stockholm scheduled next week and issued a statement criticising the vote.
"Our people and our government reject this decision based upon major errors and without foundation," said the statement.

MASS KILLINGS OF ARMENIANS
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915-6
Many historians and the Armenian people believe the killings amount to genocide
Turks and some historians deny they were orchestrated
More than 20 countries regard the massacres as genocide

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the vote was a "mistake" but that it did not change the position of his government, which supports Turkey's entry into the EU.
The Swedish vote comes less than a week after the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved a similar resolution - by 23 votes to 22 - despite strong Turkish lobbying not to.
That vote also sparked anger from Turkey and the recall of its ambassador to Washington.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8563483.stm

[Haykakan]

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So what are all those turckish ambasadors now doing since they have been recalled?

http://www.junglewalk.com/photos/pig-pictures.htm

[Alexandros]

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Εύξεινος Πόντος Στοκχόλμης
EVXINOS PONTOS STOCKHOLM ‐ SWEDEN
Οι Ποντιακές παραδόσεις συνεχίζονται και στην Σουηδία

Press release

Finally a historic resolution

Stockholm

March 11, 2010

It is with great joy that we announce that today, Thursday March 11 the Swedish Parliament has voted for the recognition of the Genocide of the Pontian Greeks and the Christian minorities in Ottoman Turkey. Our association Evxinos Pontos Stockholm congratulates and applauses the Parliament’s decision to recognize the Genocide. We believe that this recognition will strengthen the Turkish state’s democratization and the ongoing research about the Genocide.

Our association wants first and for most thank the Armenian and Assyrian National Federations for the great cooperation that we had all these years in this matter. Without this cooperation, it wouldn’t be possible to carry on this long, hard and complicated process. We would also like to thank all the members of Parliament that have supported our work all these years and with their votes made it possible for us to have a recognition of the Genocide. At the same time we would like to thank the members of Parliament Hans Linde and Fredrik Malm and the former member of Parliament Tasso Stafilidis for their help to present our plead in the Swedish Parliament.


Our president about the recognition

– This is a redress for our forefathers. The recognition is an historic event, not just for Sweden but for the whole world. The recognition is the result of our hard work all these years together with the Armenians and the Assyrians here in Sweden. We have shown the world that justice always wins at the end and history cannot be rewritten by nations or individuals. The Genocide is an historic event, one of the darkest pages of world history books and we hope that Sweden’s recognition will open the eyes of other democratic countries around the world and do the same. We humbly thank all individuals, organizations and members of Parliament that have worked for the recognition of the Genocide, says the association’s president Konstantinos Fraggidis.

Evxinos Pontos Stockholm will continue to support our Swedish society with
information so that we all can continue further with an international recognition. Once again we want to present our gratitude to all that have helped us to carry out this recognition in the Swedish Parliament.

For the association’s board,
Konstantinos Fraggidis
President

Postal address - Ταχυδρομική διεύθυνση Visiting address - Διεύθυνση επίσκεψης Telephone - Τηλέφωνο

Box 5064, SE‐163 05 Spånga, Sweden Rinkebytorget 1, Rinkeby +46 70 485 65 94

E-mail address - Ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο Internet - Ιστοχώρος Fax – Φαξ
[email protected] www.evxinospontos.com

Link

[KanadaHye]

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the vote was a "mistake" but that it did not change the position of his government, which supports Turkey's entry into the EU.
The Swedish vote comes less than a week after the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved a similar resolution - by 23 votes to 22 - despite strong Turkish lobbying not to.
That vote also sparked anger from Turkey and the recall of its ambassador to Washington.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8563483.stm

Carl Bildt... The opposition parties and other politicians as well as newspaper columnists have questioned Carl Bildt’s suitability as Sweden’s Foreign Minister for his private stands on international issues as well as his private affairs as a businessman with interest in Russian gas giant Gazprom, and Lundin Petroleum, an oil company with activities in war-torn Sudan.

It seems our Genocide recognition always seems to be stopped by people who have their dirty hands in OIL.

[GreekForumer]

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Alexandros, did you watch the debates ?

How many politicians said Ottoman Turkey was "innocent" and how many said the issue was "undecided" ?

That's the important question.

I doubt any one said any of that. The only reason they could bring is that they do not want to spoil relations with turkey.

Here is a politician from 2007 saying the truth is "undecided". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPyM2j_wGKM

I think that a politician openly supporting Turkey on this issue, through outright denial, is a thing of the past.

[Mukuch]

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Here is a politician from 2007 saying the truth is "undecided". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPyM2j_wGKM

I think that a politician openly supporting Turkey on this issue, through outright denial, is a thing of the past.

I think "the truth is undecided" is also in past. Now it is mostly "it is not a political issue" and "turks are our allies"

[Mukuch]

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Kurdish MP's vote casting in Swedish Parliament

12:02 / 03/12/2010Vote of Swedish MP of Kurdish origin Gulan Avci was crucial in the adoption of Armenian Genocide bill by Swedish Parliament, though Liberal People’s Party opposed the motion.

In an interview with Firat agency, Avci said that she opposed her party and voted for the bill so that Turkey faces the history. “Turkish Kurds are under menace of Genocide, thus recognition of Genocide by Riksdag is of major significance. I knew that my vote will be decisive and necessary. It is time for Turkey to recognize committed past genocides and massacres. Many states consider Turkey a country that committed a Genocide. This is the first time, that Swedish Parliament recognized Genocide of Pontic Greeks, Assyrians and Syrians,” Avci noted.

March 11, majority of Swedish parliament voted for the resolution describing the mass killings of Armenians and other Christian minorities in modern Turkey by the end of World War I as genocide. Bill on Armenian Genocide recognition has been proposed by three oppositional parties: Social Democratic, Green and Left. Resolution was adopted with 131 against 130 votes.

Later Turkey recalled its Ambassador from Stockholm and cancelled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Sweden scheduled for March 17 after the adoption of Armenian Genocide Resolution by Riksdag.

A.G.

[londontsi]

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Εύξεινος Πόντος Στοκχόλμης
EVXINOS PONTOS STOCKHOLM ‐ SWEDEN
Οι Ποντιακές παραδόσεις συνεχίζονται και στην Σουηδία

Press release

Finally a historic resolution

Stockholm

March 11, 2010

It is with great joy that we announce that today, Thursday March 11 the Swedish Parliament has voted for the recognition of the Genocide of the Pontian Greeks and the Christian minorities in Ottoman Turkey. Our association Evxinos Pontos Stockholm congratulates and applauses the Parliament’s decision to recognize the Genocide. We believe that this recognition will strengthen the Turkish state’s democratization and the ongoing research about the Genocide.

Our association wants first and for most thank the Armenian and Assyrian National Federations for the great cooperation that we had all these years in this matter. Without this cooperation, it wouldn’t be possible to carry on this long, hard and complicated process. We would also like to thank all the members of Parliament that have supported our work all these years and with their votes made it possible for us to have a recognition of the Genocide. At the same time we would like to thank the members of Parliament Hans Linde and Fredrik Malm and the former member of Parliament Tasso Stafilidis for their help to present our plead in the Swedish Parliament.


Our president about the recognition

– This is a redress for our forefathers. The recognition is an historic event, not just for Sweden but for the whole world. The recognition is the result of our hard work all these years together with the Armenians and the Assyrians here in Sweden. We have shown the world that justice always wins at the end and history cannot be rewritten by nations or individuals. The Genocide is an historic event, one of the darkest pages of world history books and we hope that Sweden’s recognition will open the eyes of other democratic countries around the world and do the same. We humbly thank all individuals, organizations and members of Parliament that have worked for the recognition of the Genocide, says the association’s president Konstantinos Fraggidis.

Evxinos Pontos Stockholm will continue to support our Swedish society with
information so that we all can continue further with an international recognition. Once again we want to present our gratitude to all that have helped us to carry out this recognition in the Swedish Parliament.

For the association’s board,
Konstantinos Fraggidis
President

Postal address - Ταχυδρομική διεύθυνση Visiting address - Διεύθυνση επίσκεψης Telephone - Τηλέφωνο

Box 5064, SE‐163 05 Spånga, Sweden Rinkebytorget 1, Rinkeby +46 70 485 65 94

E-mail address - Ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο Internet - Ιστοχώρος Fax – Φαξ
[email protected] www.evxinospontos.com

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Why is our Presidency or our FM not coming with a statement regarding this.

Are we napping again ?

[Federate]

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Why is our Presidency or our FM not coming with a statement regarding this.

Are we napping again ?

Surprisingly, we're not .
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Armenia Thanks Sweden For Genocide Recognition

Ruben Meloyan

Armenia’s leaders thanked Sweden’s parliament on Friday for adopting a resolution that recognizes the World War One-era mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

President Serzh Sarkisian hailed the development at a meeting with Goran Lennmarker, the visiting chairman of the Swedish parliament’s foreign affairs committee. He said “recognition of and condemnation of crimes against humanity is the best way to avert such crimes.”

Speaking to RFE/RL earlier in the day, Lennmarker endorsed the resolution which was opposed by the Swedish parliament but passed by a 131-130 vote. He said he would have voted for the measure had he not been absent from Stockholm during Thursday’s vote.

Lennmarker, who is better known in Armenia as the Nagorno-Karabakh rapporteur of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, visited on Thursday the Yerevan memorial to up to 1.5 million Armenians killed in what many historians consider a genocide.

Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian also welcomed the resolution strongly condemned by Ankara. “I think that with its historic decision Sweden’s parliament … will also contribute to peace and stability in the South Caucasus,” Abrahamian said in a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Per Westerberg.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned, meanwhile, that the Swedish vote “can hurt relations between Turkey and Armenia.” He appeared to refer to the fence-mending agreements signed by the two estranged nations last fall.

The Turks were already fuming over a similar resolution that was approved last week by a key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Reuters news agency reported that Turkish parliamentary speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said on Friday Western countries whose assemblies have passed such resolutions should “look in the mirror, if they want to find criminals.” He mentioned no specific country.

“Our 'friend' Sweden has stabbed us in the back with one vote!” read a front-page headline in “Sabah,” a leading Turkish daily.

Fatih Altayli, editor-in-chief of “Haberturk” daily cited by Reuters, was more sarcastic: “Soon, there will be no Turkish ambassadors left abroad and no foreign country our officials can visit.”

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/1982309.html

[CRDA-France]

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Great news. What makes it great is that it recognizes the Assyrian, Armenian, and Pontic Greek genocide. It was after all a genocide of Christian minorities in Turkey/Ottoman Empire. We should all be working together and that has always beens the weakness of the recognition cause; it was inability to work together. The Assyrian community which has a large diaspora in Sweden was the driving force.

Armenian Americans can be active in this swedish process in doing targetted e-mails to Swedish American Associations which are related with Sweden

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swedish+american+associations+usa&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swedish+american+churches+usa&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_American

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swedish+american+usa&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

There are also official Swedish institutions in America. It is possible to thank them :

http://www.swedenabroad.com/Start____6989.aspx

http://www.swedenabroad.com/Start____7928.aspx

http://www.swedenabroad.com/Start____8372.aspx

I have created a new page for the French Armenians to do the same for Swedens in France :

http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/4diaspora/2francophonie/3suede.htm

Another page > Historical relations between Armenians and Sweden : http://www.globalarmenianheritage-ad...ys/suede00.htm

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