Turkey: Netherlands to not use 'genocide' for 1915 events

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Netherlands to not use 'genocide' for 1915 events

 Dutch deputy PM says it is job of international courts to handle such issues, not governments

The Dutch government will not describe the 1915 events involving Armenians as "genocide", Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher said Saturday.

Speaking at a radio program, Asscher said the government would rather continue using the word "issue" to describe the events, which he said was approved by the Dutch parliament in 2004.

The deputy prime minister said the international courts should handle the veracity of such incidents, adding that his government had nothing to do with the issue.

Asscher added that Netherlands would make efforts to establish dialogue between Turkey and Armenia instead of creating legal disputes.

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