PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY SURE THAT TURKISH-U.S. RELATIONS HAVE EASED

ArmInfo
2010-04-12 13:09:00

ArmInfo. Turkey’s Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on April 11 before
flying to the United States that Turkish-U.S. relations had become
less rigid, thanks to talks between executives after the Committee
on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a
resolution acknowledging the Armenian allegations on the incidents
of 1915, Turkish mass media report.

"Our relations are milder now after the U.S. Secretary of State
called our Foreign Minister, and we have sent back our ambassador to
Washington D.C.", Erdogan said. He also said Turkey was still backing
its views expressed in a letter sent to former Armenian President
Robert Kocharian in 2005. Turkey thought such issues could not be
solved by parliaments, but they should be handled by historical
committees, Erdogan said.

To recall, Turkey had recalled its ambassador to the United States
Namik Tan after the Foreign Relations Committee of the United
States House of Representatives adopted a resolution on the Armenian
Genocide. Tan returned to Washington D.C. on April 6.