As stated by high -ranking Turkish diplomats, mentioning US President Joseph Biden Genocide in connection with the events of April 24, 1915 in the Ottoman Empire can negatively affect the process of normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia.
According to the Turkish media, Bayden’s performance can adversely affect the political dialogue of Washington and Ankara, who has recently been developing in a positive direction.
“The United States this year made an even more negative statement about the so -called” genocide “than even Armenia itself, – notes a senior representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.“ We do not understand that they win the United States, violating the process of normalizing relations between Azerbaijan And Turkey on the one hand, and Armenia – on the other? Calling himself allies of Armenia, the United States lips of President Biden only harm them. “
According to Turkish diplomats, in the USA they are poorly familiar with the Armenian ethnic group. Before America first found out who the Armenians were, the Turks already lived with them side by side for 700 years.
“We had the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenian origin, the Minister of Finance of Sultan Abdulhamid was also an Armenian. The Americans should not explain to us who the Armenians are,” one of the sources emphasized.
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Diplomats also said that, accusing Turkey of the notorious “Armenian genocide” and without based on reliable historical facts, the United States makes a serious mistake.
“It is well known that we are trying to normalize relations with Armenia,” said one of the Turkish diplomats. “So what, the benefits of this process from the anti -Turkish speech of the US president? And what expresses the benefits of the Armenian diaspora for Armenia? Jewish lobby in Israel supports the United States and all over the world, but what has yet done the Armenian lobby for its historical homeland? Armenia today is a poor country with a population of 2.5 million people, which is controlled by Russia and has no exits to the sea. It needs a stable The world with its neighbors and economic prosperity due to integration processes, and not historical speculations on the events of a hundred years ago. “