TURKISH PM: CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN U.S. CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS
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March 2 2010
Azerbaijan
One should not endanger the Turkish-American relations, considering
resolution on so-called "genocide" of Armenians in the U.S. Congress,
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
"I rely on Barack Obama’s sanity, who oversees the normalization of
Turkish-Armenian relations" he added.
The question of "genocide", should not be considered by politicians,
it should be studied by historians, he said.
U.S Congress’s International Relations Commission Chairman Howard
Berman proposed to submit the so-called ‘Armenian genocide’ for
consideration March 4.
Armenia and the Armenian lobby claim that the predecessor of Turkey
– Ottoman Empire – conducted genocide against Armenians living in
Anatolia in 1915. Making greater efforts to promote the so-called
"genocide" in the world, Armenians, who want recognition of this
fact in the world, achieved its recognition by the parliaments of
some countries.