Anadolu Agency, Turkey
April 25 2009

Turkish Foreign Ministry says some parts of Obama’s Armenia speech
unacceptable

Ankara, 25 April: The Turkish foreign minister defined on Saturday [25
April] US president’s comments on the incidents of 1915 as
unacceptable.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry released a statement and considered some
statements in US 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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress