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Turkish ambassador to return to Sweden soon: FM

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-25 08:11

ANKARA - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday that Turkey's Ambassador in Stockholm Zergun Koruturk, will return to Sweden at the beginning of next week.

Speaking in a program on CNN Turk TV channel, Davutoglu said that Koruturk, who was recalled after the Swedish Parliament adopted a bill on the incidents of 1915 on March 11, will go back to Stockholm soon.

"The cases in the United States and Sweden are not the same. The Swedish government clearly opposed the adoption of a bill on the incidents of 1915 at the Swedish Parliament. The Swedish government clearly demonstrated its stand on the bill regarding the incidents of 1915," Davutoglu stressed.

Within this frame, statements from Sweden were satisfactory, Davutoglu added.

On March 4, Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador to the United States following a US congressional panel approved a resolution labeling the incidents of 1915 as "genocide."

Turkey strongly rejects the genocide allegations and regards the events as civil strife in wartime which claimed lives of many Turks and Armenians.