ERDOGAN LABELED OBAMA AS "AMATEUR OF POLITICS"

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.01.2008 13:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
dubbed Barack Obama, one of the Democratic frontrunners in the
U.S. presidential elections who promised to recognize the killing
of Armenians in 1915 as Genocide, an amateur of politics without
explicitly mentioning his name.

"Presidential elections campaigns continue in the United States. Some
politicians’ discourse demonstrates that they do not have an adequate
knowledge of their country’s policies," said Erdogan in his Justice
and Development Party (AKP) meeting yesterday. He noted that Turkey
nurtured good relations and a strategic partnership with the United
States. "Everybody knows that adoption of such a resolution would
cause irreparable damage to Turkish-American relations," Erdogan said.

"Ankara-Washington relations cannot be subdued by lobbies, slander
and petty internal political calculations."

"A day may come when you will have to choose between 70 million
Turkey and two million Armenia. One has to think carefully before
uttering such words. I suggest that he outgrow the amateur period of
his political career," he said, the Turkish Daily News reports