News Brief
3/12/2010, Adar 26, 5770
Sweden Recognizes Armenian Genocide of 1915
The Swedish parliament narrowly approved a resolution on Thursday recognizing the World War I-era mass killing of Armenians in by the Turkish Ottoman Empire as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest. The measure passed with a one-vote margin in a surprise decision that came a week after a United States congressional committee approved a similar resolution.