ANALYSIS/OPINION:
For more than seven decades, Turkey and the U.S. have been allies cherishing common values and sharing responsibilities in maintaining peace and stability in the Transatlantic area and beyond. There have been disagreements, but we were able to work through them based on mutual respect as regards each other’s national interests and sensitivities.
President Biden’s statement on Armenian Remembrance Day constitutes, however, not only a stark contrast with the spirit of alliance, but also a gross distortion of historical facts, doing a grave injustice to Turkey’s constructive efforts so far. For decades, successive U.S. administrations did not give in to the pressures of the Armenian lobby. What happened now is an outright abuse of such a delicate historical and legal matter for political purposes.
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