Armenian-Turkish Relations

[Alexandros]

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Erdogan confident President Obama will not use the term Genocide

April 13, 2010 - 18:02 AMT 13:02 GMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is confident President Barack Obama will not use the term Genocide in his Aril 24 address to US Armenian community.

"That would be my expectation, because to this day, no American leader has uttered that word, and I believe that President Obama will not,” Erdogan stated.

"No nation, no people has the right to impose the way it remembers history to another nation or people -- and Turkey does not try to do that," CNN cited him as saying.

“Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it — and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples — the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten,” 40th US President Ronald Reagan said in his April 22, 1981 proclamation in commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust.

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Prime Minster Erdogan said:

"No nation, no people has the right to impose the way it remembers history to another nation or people -- and Turkey does not try to do that," CNN cited him as saying.

LOL. Erdogan seems to have a short memory. Erdogan accused China for committing a genocide against the Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang province last year.

Turkish leader calls Xinjiang killings "genocide"

[Haykakan]

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I think Russia and Iran should demand Armenia be invited at the next meeting of oil producing states lol. Azeris are like little childeren in the way they think, maybe i worry too much about another war.

[ninetoyadome]

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Why should they be invited? Armenia has a nuclear reactor while they don't. Maybe when there is an oil convention Armenia should also be invited. Azerbaijan is like a little kid, its pathetic.

[ashot24]

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I believe big, powerful, bad guy "Türkiye" is afraid of small, powerless, bad-guy wannabe "Azerbaycan"...isn't it pathetic?

You get the impression Turkey is worried of loosing Azerbaijan, that they are willing to bow down to them and do whatever they want, Turkey is a tool Azerbaijan's using to get what their want, how ironic is that?

[Tigranakert]

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Haha what is the next step, will they pass a message to NKR's president Bako Sahakian that is not correct to invite Serge Sarkissian without inviting Azerbaboon Aliyev.

[Haykakan]

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TURKISH ENVOY CONVEYS PM'S LETTER TO AZERBAIJAN

armradio.am
09.04.2010 18:37

Turkey has conveyed its concerns to the United States about Azerbaijan
not being invited to the upcoming nuclear summit in Washington, D.C.,
diplomatic sources have told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review.

"We have passed on the message that it is not correct to not invite
Baku to an international event where Armenia will be represented,"
said the sources, adding that Washington responded by providing Ankara
with information about the criteria used to determine the states to
be invited to participate.

Heads of state and government from more than 40 countries will
participate in the summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama on
Monday and Tuesday.

Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu, Turkey's
top diplomat, held talks Friday in Baku where he conveyed a letter from
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev. Diplomatic sources said the visit also aimed to compensate
for Baku's non-participation in the nuclear summit.

In Baku, Sinirlioglu also met with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister
Elmar Memmedyarov, who had spoken by telephone a day previously with
his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu.

Turkey has informed Baku about Sinirlioglu's meetings in Yerevan
early this week and Davutoglu's talks in France, one of the countries
co-chairing the Minsk Group, which aims to find a settlement to the
Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.


This is so pathetic it made me laugh.

[Eddo211]

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This is a good opportunity for Sarkisian to show his stuff, stay strong, and raise the bet. He should challenge (bluff) Erdogan to a meeting and not fold under any US pressure.
I am sure he knows that Americans don't play chess or checkers.......they play poker and they admire a man who can play his hand right.

[Haykakan]

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OBAMA TO MEET SARKISIAN BUT NOT ERDOGAN IN WASHINGTON

Hurriyet

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=obama-to-meet-sarkisian-but-not-erdogan-2010-04-07

April 7 2010
Turkey

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to meet with Armenia's president
on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington, but no
meeting has yet been planned with Turkey's leader, the White House's
press secretary said.

Secretary Robert Gibbs announced which countries would participate
in the nuclear security summit on April 12-13 and which bilateral
meetings would take place with Obama during a Tuesday press conference
at the White House.

Earlier reports said Obama would host a trilateral meeting to also
include Erdogan and Sarkisian to give impetus to the slow-moving
normalization process between Turkey and Armenia.

Responding to a question on whether Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan would attend the meeting between Obama and Armenian
President Serge Sarkisian, Gibbs concisely said, "No meeting."

According to Gibbs, besides Sarkisian, Obama will meet the leaders
of China, Germany, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa
and Kazakhstan. His meeting with Sarkisian will focus on the recent
Armenia-Turkish thaw, Gibbs said.

However, a senior White House official, who wants to remain anonymous,
said they expect the president will have a chance to talk to Prime
Minister Erdogan as they will be seated next to each other at one of
the events.

Another source in Washington who is closely following the unfolding
nuclear security summit meeting's agenda said, "This development could
be yet another reason for a new crisis between the two countries."

Omer TaÅ~_pınar, director of the Turkey Program at the Brookings
Institution, a Washington-based think tank, said the meeting between
Sarkisian and Obama might cover other issues beside the normalization
process.

The increasingly close relationship between Armenia and Iran,
including some energy deals, has raised eyebrows in Washington,
TaÅ~_pınar said, adding that it is possible Obama will raise this
issue during his meeting with Sarkisian.

[Haykakan]

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PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA ACCEPTS TURKISH PRIME MINISTER'S PROPOSAL

ArmInfo
2010-04-08 11:23:00

ArmInfo. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan accepted the proposal
by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold a bilateral
meeting in Washington within the frames of the upcoming summit on
global nuclear security issues, spokesman of the Armenian president
Armen Arzumanyan said.

[Haykakan]

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SARGSYAN-OBAMA-ERDOGAN MEETING MAY TAKE PLACE IN WASHINGTON

PanARMENIAN.Net
31.03.2010 17:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan will
be in Washington on April 12 and 13 to take part in the international
nuclear security summit, which will also be attended by Armenia's
President Serzh Sargsyan

According to Sky Turk news agency, Erdogan will arrive in Washington
a day prior to the summit opening. Turkish Ambassador to the US Namik
Tan, who was recalled from Washington on March 4, will accompany the
Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, Internethaber news agency reported that Erdogan is expected
to meet US President Obama to discuss the Armenian-Turkish Protocols
on the threshold of April 24.

"In case of a trilateral meeting between Sargsyan, Obama and Erdogan,
the US President will get another opportunity to say that a progress is
fixed in the Armenian-Turkish process and therefore to avoid using
the Genocide term in annual address to the Armenian community,"
the report said.