Harsh words were fired from Brussels on Friday as the commission reacted strongly to a Turkish court's suspension of a conference on the Armenian massacre. Meanwhile Turkey has slammed an EU counter declaration on Cyprus.
The decision yesterday (22 September) by an Istanbul court to cancel a conference on the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman empire in 1915, sparked a commission spokeswoman to speak of "yet another provocation".
The term "provocation" was also used last w...
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