TURKISH PM TEACHES ARMENIA HOW TO DEAL WITH DIASPORA
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March 17 2010
Armenia
Being on a visit to London, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
gave an interview to British BBC channel, where warned of possible
deportation of 100.000 illegal Armenians from the country. This is
how he replied to the question on official Ankara’s response to the
adoption of Armenian Genocide resolution by several parliaments.
According to RIA Novosti, Erdogan reckons that crisis entailed by
resolutions’ approval will primarily harm Armenia.
Armenia should make a very critical decision. It should get rid of
Diaspora security. If there are states feeling sympathy for Armenia,
led by U.S., France and Russia, they should dispose it of this,
foreign channels quoted Erdogan.
There are 170.000 Armenians living in my country, of which 70.000 –
are citizens of Turkey. If needed, tomorrow I will tell these 100.000
people, who we currently deal with, to leave the country. I will do
it, as they are not my citizens, and I don’t have to keep them in my
country, he maintained.
It is worth mentioning that multitudinous Armenian Diaspora is formed
as a result of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey committed in the
beginning of last century.