Türkiye slams US remarks on 1915 events: ‘Yet another attempt to distort history’
‘Politically-driven statements cannot change facts,’ Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says
Türkiye on Monday lashed out at US President Joe Biden’s remarks on the 1915 events between the Ottoman Empire and Armenia.
“Yet another attempt by political charlatans to distort history! Politically driven statements cannot change the facts.
“Those intentionally insisting on their mistakes are destined to be remembered as hypocrites. No one shall dare to lecture us on our history,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
Separately, the Turkish Foreign Ministry rejected the statements made by the government officials of some countries, saying that Ankara considers them “null and void,” and condemned in the strongest terms those “who persist in this mistake.”
It added that “1915 events cannot be defined according to politicians’ personal agendas and their domestic political considerations.”
The statement further read: “Such an approach can only lead to distortion of history. Those who insist on this biased approach will go down in history as worthless opportunist politicians.”
– ‘Armenian terrorist organizations brutally murdered thousands of Turks in 1915’
Meanwhile, the Turkish National Defense Ministry also condemned those who tried to slander the Türkiye over the 1915 events.
“According to national and foreign archives, Armenian terrorist organizations brutally murdered thousands of Turks in 1915, regardless of the elderly, women, or children.
Türkiye’s position on the events of 1915 is that the deaths of Armenians in eastern Anatolia took place when some sided with the invading Russians and revolted against Ottoman forces. A subsequent relocation of Armenians resulted in numerous casualties.
Türkiye objects to the presentation of the incidents as “genocide,” describing them as a tragedy in which both sides suffered casualties.
Ankara has repeatedly proposed the creation of a joint commission of historians from Türkiye and Armenia as well as international experts to tackle the issue.
