news.am, Armenia
March 6 2010
How many congressmen voted for Genocide Resolution can locate Armenia
on map: Erdogan
15:34 / 03/06/2010Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President
Abdullah Gul discredited U.S. congressmen’s knowledge of geography.
Speaking at the third conference of Turkish Businessmen and
Manufacturers Confederation, Erdogan said: `What U.S. congressmen
voted for the Armenian Genocide resolution can locate Armenia on
global map? At the World War I each family residing on that territory
suffered losses. Certainly we did not and will not forget that
bereavement, but cannot plan for the future based on that. Great
powers should draw lessons from the past meanwhile looking to the
future. Tell me, who benefited from voting for Armenian Genocide in
the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs ` U.S. or Armenia?’
Thereupon, Erdogan compared discussions in the Committee with comedy
or knockabout, pillorying voting in the Congress. Then he turned nasty
to U.S. recalling Turkey is a large country and those not realizing
this will feel it shortly. `I am clear, the decision by Committee on
Foreign Affairs will not hurt Turkey, it’s not us who will lose, but
those shortsighted,’ he concluded.
S.T.