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BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN
The Armenian Patriarch of Turkey, Sahak Mashalian, once again issued a pro-Turkish statement, this time on the eve of the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, trying to please his Turkish masters and undermine President Joe Biden’s April 24 acknowledgment.
We all understand that the Armenian community and the Patriarch in Turkey are hostages in the hands of the Turkish government. As such, they are under pressure to make pro-Turkish statements. However, there are red lines that no Armenian should cross, regardless of the circumstances or reasons. Our ancestors sacrificed their lives during the genocide, not succumbing to Turkish pressures and physical threats. The Patriarch, who is supposed to be a man of God, is obligated to tell the truth even if his life is in danger.
After Biden s statement recognizing so-called ‘Armenian genocide,’ Gulnur Aybet says relations could suffer Dilan Pamuk | 01.05.2021
ANKARA Relations between Turkey and the US could suffer after US President Joe Biden s unlawful and unacceptable statement recognizing the so-called Armenian genocide, said Turkish senior presidential advisor Gulnur Aybet in an article on Saturday, underlining that without Turkey, regional stability was out of the question.
Aybet wrote an article on Turkish-American relations for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), one of the UK’s respected think tanks.
Stating that the current problems between Turkey and the US differed from the occasional tensions since the 1960s, Aybet said Turkey emerged as a power that changed the realities on the ground at a time when global power balances were shifting.
29 Apr in 18:49 Anadolu Agency
Biden’s use of the term genocide jeopardizes regional peace while confining Armenia’s future to events that occurred over a century ago, Dr. Javid Valiyev, the head of the AIR department that focuses on Azerbaijani foreign policy, geopolitics in South Caucasus, internal and external policy of Turkey, Azerbaijan-Turkey relations, writes in the article for
The use of the term “genocide” by US President Joe Biden to describe the events of 1915 has sparked a slew of legal and political debates. Legal experts believe that this is a political statement and has nothing to do with international law, while political experts believe the statement is not even in favor of the regional politics of the US, much less Turkey-US relations and the situation of Turkish citizens of Armenian descent. On the contrary, the declaration risks seriously damaging the post-conflict peacebuilding process in the South Caucasus.