Were slaughtered by the alderman empire todays turkey this week the u. S. House of representatives overwhelmingly voted to give it a name genocide and now the u. S. And turkey both nato members well they seem more like enemies than allies who in the world would a well Something Like that to happen the answer for both countries begins with mr president im bring gulf in berlin this is the day. It is always the right time to recognize genocide but it is particularly so today. This step is no. We simply dont accept it we can say that the Ottoman Empire committed this grotesque crime against the armenians. We consider such an accusation to be the biggest insult people how can we truly say
the crimes of a century ago or in the past. We cannot tidy Little Country hes historys full of the stain of genocide im slavery has no right to say anything not to lecture attacking thats better mohawk good luck. Also coming up Climate Change and a teenage activist named greg bag the swedish young woman is
Could threaten security and peace in the future 100 years ago in what is now turkey the all the many empire committed what many historians say was the 1st genocide of the 20th century to this day turkey says there was no genocide up until yesterday the united states had said nothing the u.s. congress ended its violence on tuesday the house of representatives approved sanctions against turkey and also recognized the armenian genocide the turkish president today condemned the u.s. saying america s history of slavery disqualifies it from judging another nation s past already did it a country he s history is full of the stain of genocide and slavery has no right to say anything not selection taki not expected mohawk. but for washington lawmakers this is more about the president and the presidents president trump and president everyone spoke on the phone 3 weeks ago and that conversation
The house of representatives do you think that was a decision made out of conviction that this was truly genocide or do you think lawmakers were trying to use this to rebuke president trump and president aired of one. for many years turkey exercise a veto here in washington d.c. preventing members of congress from voting their conscience on the armenian genocide members of congress essentially overrode that veto and let members vote up or down and 405 of them voted yes only 11 voted no and that s basically what happened the patient s right out with turkey to say that we re not going to force your gag rule here in washington and we re going to let legislators vote their conscience. the thing is this right in turkey it s illegal to talk about the armenian genocide and that s it s a terrible law but that s turkey s law they have no right to export that here to washington and especially america has told opera we re not going to outsource our
Genocide they did the escape from acknowledging the example friend genocide in algeria and they committed the genocide killing one inhofe median what people in argentina or when got an american genocide of indian americans maher live let me at me just ask you this then do you understand the u.s. lawmakers just may with president air to watch i mean there are people who are saying that this decision was motivated big by washington s dismay with your president do you understand that look it is very clear that all of these decisions are not based on the facts that the historians and maybe i call the just or researchers can actually show us but these are the decisions for making cheap political scores this is not only in the states we have just seen it we have seen
Country has right to impose their own version of a story on another country and especially when it when the when there are no historians. when there are no researchers spoken about this but politicians it is very clear that this is a public site this isn t it has nothing to do with the facts and it has nothing to do with the story and really does a something we have been very very open from the beginning we have opened our archive which includes over 1000000 documents related to this part of history and we have been saying the same thing to our contra parts around the world including armenian government but we haven t seen that we cannot make such decisions politically especially when there are no evidence we cannot we cannot create. we cannot create money fractured genocide accusations when there are actually real