The adoption of Armenian Genocide Resolution by Swedish Parliament will have a negative impact on Turkey-Armenia reconciliation.

Turkey recalled its Ambassador to Sweden after the motion passing by Riksdag, Reuters reports. The vote came a week after the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved the resolution branding the massacres of Armenians as genocide, resulting in Ankara recalling its ambassador.

“It will damage Armenia-Turkey ties,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated at the opening of a factory in Istanbul.

Despite Turkey makes statements on the negative impact of the resolution on Armenia-Turkey reconciliation, the steps toward the normalization slowed down for several months. “The issues of Armenian massacres are so sensitive that Turks are ready to compromise their relations with their major allies,” Reuters informs recalling that the legislatives branches of France, Russia, Greece, Germany, Belgium and Canada adopted the resolution.

Turks are enraged by the motion adoption in Swedish Parliament, as Sweden is among the few countries that openly support Turkey’s troubled EU accession bid, unlike France and Germany.

L.A.