Historical incidents should not be tool
16 December 2011 07:57 (Last updated 16 December 2011 09:13)
Turkey's development minister said historical incidents should not be made a tool for politics.
Turkey's development minister said historical incidents should not be made a tool for politics.***
WASHINGTON
Cevdet Yilmaz said that historical incidents should not particularly be made a tool for internal politics when commenting on a French resolution on Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915.
"Turkey's stance is obvious," Yilmaz said during a meeting organized at Turkey's Embassy in Washington with the support of the Atlantic Council.
(Reporting by Mehmet Toroglu-Bariskan Unal)