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Turkısh Prime Minister: We understand what the Armenians feel…but

Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s Prime Minister, released a statement today that Turkey “remembers with respect the innocent Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives and offers its deep condolences to their descendants.”

Nevertheless, the Turkish Prime Minister qualified what took place in 1915 as “relocation” and argued that it was morally and legally problematic to place the entire blame, through generalizations, on the Turkish nation.

TheTurkish Prime Minister, as in the past,  said that others, Turkish and Muslim Ottomans, suffered as well and that it would be wrong to discriminate between the pains suffered.

Davutoğlu, in a veiled retort to Armenian lobbying efforts to get Turkey to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide, said that  “recent years have shown that nothing can be achieved by trying to impose conflicting narratives upon one another.”

Thus, the Turkish Prime Minister, apparently feeling the need to take a proactive postion on the matter in light of recent renewed international focus on the Armenian Genocide, has crafted a clever official Turkish response; i.e., Yes the Armeians suffered, but so did many other Ottoman nationalities, and what the Armeians experienced is being  needlessly and wrongly manipulatd for solely politica purposes.

Read the entire statement HERE 

Comments (2)

Shahen A.
Turkish nation is to be blamed for not seeking the truth. Tell them the truth Mr. Davutglu. Tell them who the young Turks were!!! tell them were they came from originally!!! Tell them about their plans and why Armenians and other christians had to sacrificed!!! But you will not because if you do, Turks will up-rise and destroy your foundation once for all....
Aram
It appears the that new argument (maybe the only one left for the Turks) is that Armenians died but so did Turks and Muslims. Therefore it wasn't genocide. If this is indeed the last approach, it's pitiful, and straightforward to expose: Millions of Germans died in WWII-- does that mean the Holocaust did not happen? Perhaps no Russian civilians were killed by the Nazis because, after all, many Nazis also died. The Turks are cornered and isolated-- it is pathetic indeed.

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