Turkey replies that the genocide accusation by the US is ‘outrageous’
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s declaration that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide is “simply outrageous” and Turkey will respond over coming months, Turkey’s presidential spokesman said on Sunday.
Biden broke on Saturday with decades of carefully calibrated White House comments over the 1915 killings, delighting Armenia and its diaspora but further straining ties between Washington and Ankara, both members of the NATO military alliance.
“There will be a reaction of different forms and kinds and degrees in coming days and months,” Ibrahim Kalin, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman and adviser, told Reuters in an interview.
Kalin did not specify whether Ankara would restrict U.S. access to the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, which has been used to support the international coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, among measures it may take.
After other Turkish officials swiftly condemned Biden’s statement on Saturday, Erdogan would address the issue after a cabinet meeting on Monday, Kalin said. “At a time and place that we consider to be appropriate, we will continue to respond to this very unfortunate, unfair statement,” he said.
Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces in World War One, but denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute genocide.
TROUBLED RELATIONS
For decades, measures recognising the Armenian genocide stalled in the U.S. Congress and most U.S. presidents have refrained from calling it that, held back by concerns about straining relations with Turkey.
But those relations are already troubled. Washington imposed sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of Russian air defences, while Ankara has been angered that the United States has armed Kurdish YPG fighters in Syria and not extradited a U.S.-based cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt.
Clown west likes showing done as undone
undone as done
they all did what they blame for turkey
The Turkish government is the political wing of ISIS. It is time Erdogan was dragged from his lair and killed, like the filthy diseased dog that he is.
“It’s not supported by historical fact”. ?
Biden believed the facts history has documented, even Dutch Armenian, Kurdish AND a growing number of Turkish people now together commenmerate the Armeian genocide. (btw the same applies to Kurdistan! Kurds now being prosecuted by Turks or Yazedi’s)
Like these from that times:(are many more)
Armenian massacres, or The sword of Mohammed containing a complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by Mohammedan fanatics, including a full account of the Turkish people, their history, government, manners, customs and strange religious belief by Greene, Frederick Davis; Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 590 pages
Publication date 1896
https://archive.org/details/armenianmassacre01gree/mode/1up
or
Armenian atrocities, the murder of a nation by Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975; Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 132 pages
Publication date 1915
https://archive.org/details/armenianatrociti00toyn/page/n5/mode/2up
or The horrors of Aleppo by Niepage, Martin 24 pages (graphic)
Publication date 1916
https://archive.org/details/horrorsofaleppo00niep/page/n1/mode/1up
“It’s not supported by historical fact”. ?
Biden believed the facts history has documented, even Dutch Armenian, Kurdish AND a growing number of Turkish people now together commenmerate the Armeian genocide. (btw the same applies to Kurdistan! Kurds now being prosecuted by Turks or Yazedi’s)
Like these from that times:(are many more)
can be found on archive . org(since links not allowed here)
Armenian massacres, or The sword of Mohammed containing a complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by Mohammedan fanatics, including a full account of the Turkish people, their history, government, manners, customs and strange religious belief by Greene, Frederick Davis; Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 590 pages
Publication date 1896
or
Armenian atrocities, the murder of a nation by Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975; Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 132 pages
Publication date 1915
or The horrors of Aleppo by Niepage, Martin 24 pages (graphic)
Publication date 1916
well tried 4 times to put data and links in with historical facts
just go to archive . org and type in armenian genocide and you see written evidence from that time oldest 1896 latest 1916
btw it’s not just armenians, also Kurds, Yazedi’s. Turkey never kept promise for a independent Kurdistan