ANKARA, Turkey (Hurriyet Daily News)—Turkey has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump over his statement to commemorate the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, voicing expectations that the new administration will not lend credence to “a one-sided historical narrative.”
Trump, in a traditional presidential statement issued every April 24, used the term “Meds Yeghern,” an Armenian term meaning “great calamity,” avoiding the use of the word genocide, just like his predecessor, Barack Obama.
“We consider that the misinformation and false definitions contained in U.S. President Trump’s written statement on April 24, 2017, regarding the 1915 events are derived from the information pollution created over the years by some Armenian circles in the U.S. by means of propaganda methods,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement on April 24.
“We expect that the new U.S. administration will not lend credence to the one-sided historical narrative of these circles, which are known for their tendency to violence and hate speech, and to adopt an approach which will take into consideration the sufferings of all sides,” it added.
Trump, in his first April 24 statement, preferred to follow the line of Obama, who also used the Armenian term “Meds Yeghern” and not genocide while president, despite promising to label the killings as genocide while on the campaign trail in 2008.
NOW TRUMP,SEE HOW MUCH BA–S YOU GOT,TO ANSWER THE COWARDS…….
Shut the hell up “aptal”. Never mind the Genocide, what about the fact that a whole race of people disappeared from their ancestral homeland? The greatest number of diasporan Armenians live in the US. I think the US already knows how and why they ended up on US soil. “Aptal” Turks actually believe they can override overt history by lecturing to others.
I wonder sometimes how a dictatorial country like Turkey can shut the creator of word of Genocide, Raphael; Lemkin!
https://vimeo.com/125514772
Turkey now in the role of advising US Government and the US President! Imagine that!!
So much arrogance, falsehood, distortion of reality, can be found only in the sick minds of Turkish rulers, and the new imaginative Sultan of Ankara, with his middle ages level taste of golden chairs and couches in his palace that leaders of Europe visiting him refuse to sit on those chairs, in gross disgust!
Turkey’s Gag rule continues.