Fredrik Reinfeldt
Reinfeldt said that the Swedish government did not share the decision taken by parliament and would never allow the resolution to negatively affect relations between the two countries. He said Sweden would continue to support Turkey in all fields including its EU membership process.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his part said that parliaments could not rebuild history and recalled that Turkey had opened its archives to all historians, scholars and researchers.
Erdogan said that these kinds of political initiatives were nurtured with ignorance and prejudice and they would impede historical and scientific research as well as Turkey's multi-dimensional goodwill efforts for regional peace.
Erdogan asked the Swedish government to take steps that could compensate for the resolution.
The Swedish parliament passed a resolution on Thursday describing the mass killings of Armenians and other Christian minorities in modern Turkey at the end of World War I as 'genocide'.
TRT
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