TURKISH PM, FOREIGN MINISTRY AT ODDS OVER OBAMA STATEMENT

armradio.am
26.04.2010 13:50

Despite avoiding the word "genocide" in describing the events of 1915
during his Saturday commemoration statement, U.S. President Barack
Obama’s wording still riled the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

"We deeply regret this statement which reflects an incorrect and
one-sided political perception.

The toughest enemy of the historical facts are subjective memory
records. No nation has the right to impose its memory records on
another nation.

Third counties neither have a right nor authority to judge the history
of Turkish-Armenian relations with political motives," the Ministry
said in a statement

However, while the Foreign Ministry was upset at Obama’s terming of
the World War I events as "one of the worst atrocities" in history,
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a positive
statement afterward, displaying a slight rift between the Foreign
Ministry and the Prime Ministry, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.