Posted on May 7, 2021.
Citing an unnamed source, American news networks Bloomberg and CNN claimed that President Joe Biden told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a telephone conversation on April 23 that he was planning to recognize the Armenian massacre as a genocide and indicate that it was carried out by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The report did not mention how Erdogan reacted.
There are still those in Turkey who ask what they would lose if Turkey apologized. Wasn’t there an apology already on Turkey’s behalf? These attitudes seek to divide Turkey and they serve Armenia’s goal of recognizing genocide and seeking reparations. On the other hand, look at what type of messages Vakıfay’s founder and financial general secretary, Avedis Kevork Hilkat, himself a Turkish Armenian, posted on his Facebook page in an article entitled “I have an objection”: