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| Turkey: A Warning for Armenians |
| 2010-03-18 |
| Turkey: making friends, influencing people ... Well, at least they're not killing them this time... Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to expel thousands of illegal Armenian immigrants after American and Swedish lawmakers passed resolutions condemning as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century. Turkey, which is predominantly Muslim, warned that the votes could hurt a fragile effort to reconcile with Armenia, which is predominantly Christian, after a century of hostility. Asked about the votes in an interview with the BBC Turkish service that was broadcast late on Tuesday, Mr. Erdogan said: “There are currently 170,000 Armenians living in our country. Only 70,000 of them are Turkish citizens, but we are tolerating the remaining 100,000. If necessary, I may have to tell these 100,000 to go back to their country because they are not my citizens.' |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 ..making room for illegal Turks to return from EUrope. |
| Posted by: Spot 2010-03-18 08:21 |