The Ottoman Road Untraveled
April 27, 2021 | By Alberto M. Fernandez
The Biden administration s recognition of the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks initially received a relatively muted response by Turkish officials. Foreign Minister Cavusoglu tweeted We have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past, while Erdoğan s nationalist political ally Devlet Bahçeli retorted that Turkey s history was faultless with neither genocides nor massacres by the Turkish nation. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin chided the U.S. president to look to his own history and present. [1] When Erdoğan finally did respond to the Biden declaration, 48 hours later, the tone and content of his remarks were negative, but seemed more in sorrow than in anger.[2]