Saturday, 25 April 2009The Turkish Foreign Minister defined on Saturday U.S. president's comments on the incidents of 1915 as unacceptable.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry released a statement and considered some statements in U.S. President Barack Obama's speech on the "Armenian remembrance day" as unacceptable.
"We consider some expressions in that statement and the perception of history it contains concerning the events of 1915, as unacceptable," the ministry said.
The ministry said that nobody should forget that several hundreds of thousands of Turks also lost their lives in those days.
"History can be construed and evaluated only on the basis of undisputed evidence and documentation," the ministry statement said.
The ministry said that common history of the Turkish and Armenian nations had to be assessed solely through impartial and scientific data, and historians must base their evaluations only on such material.
"It is with such an understanding that we support the historical dimension of the Turkish-Armenian dialogue," it said.
The ministry also said that it considered positively the stance of President Obama on the Turkish-Armenian normalization process. |
Saturday, 25 April 2009
ANKARA (A.A)
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