ERDOGAN MADE A STATEMENT SIMILAR TO THOSE FORERUNNING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
18.03.2010 13:48 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey’s Prime Minister made an inadmissible
statement, Armenian top diplomat said.
"Unfortunately, it’s not for the first time Turkish officials threaten
deportation of Armenian immigrants. Similar statements forerun the
Armenian Genocide in 1915 and Armenian pogroms in Sumgait in 1988,"
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said during a news conference in
Yerevan when responding to a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter’s question.
"Such statement damage the Armenian-Turkish dialogue. We are hopeful
that Ankara will take a more realistic approach and will give up
the language of blackmail, a non-civilized way to resolve problems,"
the Minister said.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday 100 thousand
illegal Armenian immigrants can be deported from the country.
"There are 170 thousand Armenians living in Turkey. 70 thousand of
them are Turkish citizens. If necessary, I will tell the remaining 100
thousand to leave. I can do so because they are not Turkish citizens
and I’m not obliged to keep them in my country," Erdogan said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
