Turkey welcomed the decision. "Turkish public, with its government and opposition, is grateful to all the political parties represented in the Swedish Parliament for both their support to Turkey's EU bid and their decision rejecting calls for recognition of Armenian allegations," Egemen Bagis, Turkish prime minister's advisor and an AKP MP, was quoted as telling reporters by the state-run Anatolian Agency.

Turkey has long been facing a systematic campaign of defamation carried out by Armenian lobbying groups. The Armenian diaspora has lately increased its organized activities throughout the world for the recognition of their unfounded allegations in regard to the events of 1915 as "genocide" by national and local parliaments.

Some 300,000 Armenians and at least an equal number of Turks were killed in civil strife when Armenians, backed by Russia, rose up against the Ottomans in 1915. However Armenians claim in a systematic campaign of defamation some 1.5 million of their kinsmen died in orchestrated killings during the 1915 incidents.

The parliaments of Argentina, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Lebanon, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Uruguay, Greece, the Greek Cypriot administration, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Chile, Venezuela and the European Parliament passed either resolutions or issued statements.

Turkey says parliaments and other political institutions are not the appropriate for to debate and pass judgments on disputed periods of history. Past events and controversial periods of history should be left to the historians for their dispassionate study and evaluation.

However Turkey's efforts to carry a deeper investigation have yet made a positive outcome. In 2005, Turkey has officially proposed to the government of Armenia the establishment of a joint commission of history composed of historians and other experts from both sides to study together the events of 1915 not only in the archives of Turkey and Armenia but also in the archives of all relevant third countries and to share their findings with the public. Unfortunately, Armenia has not responded positively to this initiative, yet. Turkey's proposal is still on the table.