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TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN LASHES OUT AT ARMENIAN DIASPORA
BGN NEWS, Turkey
March 19 2015
"The purpose of this campaign against Turkey is to treat our country
as an enemy, instead of keeping alive Armenians' sorrow," said Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
At the target of Erdogan's Thursday statements in Ä°stanbul are
the vast numbers of diasporic Armenian groups campaigning. Ethnic
Armenians live in a number of nations, including the United States,
Russia and France amongst others. Armenians will commemorate the
100th anniversary of the 1915 incidents on April 24. Erdogan added,
"We do not have to give an account to anyone on this issue. If we
pursue our own nation's 100, 150 years of sorrow we can find more
than Armenian allegations."
The debate on the term "genocide" between the present-day Turkish
government, the Armenian diaspora populations, and the current
administration in Yerevan still generates political tension between
Turks and Armenians. Turkey officially views the 1.5 million Ottoman
Armenian deaths as a result of conflict which inflicted fatality on
both sides, and did not constitute a genocide.
"Oh Armenian diaspora, oh Armenian administration, our archives are
here. We have hundreds of thousands of documents, over a million
documents. How many documents do you have? Bring your documents, and
we task the historians, political scientists, even archeologists and
lawyers [with studying them] ... let's seek the truth here," he said,
adding that, "anti-Turkey campaigns carried out by paying money and
forming lobbies will not earn you anything."
An important aspect of the Armenian issue rests with how the United
States treats it, as hundreds of citizens of Armenian descent live
there. In past official April 24 addresses, US presidents have
refrained from using the word genocide. Close to 40 members from the
US House of Representatives have issued a draft resolution to Congress
to define the casualties as a genocide.
March 19, 2015 | BGNNews.com | Ä°stanbul
http://politics.bgnnews.com/turkish-president-erdogan-lashes-out-at-armenian-diaspora-haberi/4447
BGN NEWS, Turkey
March 19 2015
"The purpose of this campaign against Turkey is to treat our country
as an enemy, instead of keeping alive Armenians' sorrow," said Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
At the target of Erdogan's Thursday statements in Ä°stanbul are
the vast numbers of diasporic Armenian groups campaigning. Ethnic
Armenians live in a number of nations, including the United States,
Russia and France amongst others. Armenians will commemorate the
100th anniversary of the 1915 incidents on April 24. Erdogan added,
"We do not have to give an account to anyone on this issue. If we
pursue our own nation's 100, 150 years of sorrow we can find more
than Armenian allegations."
The debate on the term "genocide" between the present-day Turkish
government, the Armenian diaspora populations, and the current
administration in Yerevan still generates political tension between
Turks and Armenians. Turkey officially views the 1.5 million Ottoman
Armenian deaths as a result of conflict which inflicted fatality on
both sides, and did not constitute a genocide.
"Oh Armenian diaspora, oh Armenian administration, our archives are
here. We have hundreds of thousands of documents, over a million
documents. How many documents do you have? Bring your documents, and
we task the historians, political scientists, even archeologists and
lawyers [with studying them] ... let's seek the truth here," he said,
adding that, "anti-Turkey campaigns carried out by paying money and
forming lobbies will not earn you anything."
An important aspect of the Armenian issue rests with how the United
States treats it, as hundreds of citizens of Armenian descent live
there. In past official April 24 addresses, US presidents have
refrained from using the word genocide. Close to 40 members from the
US House of Representatives have issued a draft resolution to Congress
to define the casualties as a genocide.
March 19, 2015 | BGNNews.com | Ä°stanbul
http://politics.bgnnews.com/turkish-president-erdogan-lashes-out-at-armenian-diaspora-haberi/4447