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Abdullah Gul said "There is no one better than us when it comes to harming ourselves" (Photo: European Commission)

Brussels clashes with Turks on free speech and Cyprus

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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Abdullah Gul said "There is no one better than us when it comes to harming ourselves" (Photo: European Commission)

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