14:19 • 30.04.21
The genocide a century ago is just one source of contention
Both past and present haunt relations between Turkey and Armenia. A century ago, Ottoman troops carried out a genocide of Armenians. A few months ago, Turkey helped Azerbaijan defeat Armenia in a war. For decades, the border between Turkey and Armenia has been closed.
Yet in December Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held out hope of “a new era” in Turkish-Armenian relations. The unlikely setting was a military parade in Azerbaijan celebrating victory over Armenia. Using Turkish arms, Azeri forces had just recaptured parts of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, and some adjacent districts that had been occupied by Armenia for three decades. Army convoys rolled past Mr Erdogan and the Azeri president, Ilham Aliyev, displaying the wreckage of Armenian tanks, as well as the Turkish drones that had pounded them into the ground. Mr Erdogan hinted that Arm
The Economist (Великобритания): Турция и Армения не демонстрируют никаких признаков примирения
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Turkey Summons U.S. Envoy After Biden’s ‘Genocide’ Statement Bloomberg 1 hr ago Onur Ant, Jennifer Jacobs and Gregory Korte
(Bloomberg) President Joe Biden commemorated the 106th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians by twice calling it a “genocide” a word no U.S. leader since Ronald Reagan has used to describe the event for fear of alienating NATO ally Turkey.
Turkey, in response, summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield to Ankara, and said it rejected Biden’s characterization of the events of 1915.
“The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today,” Biden said in a written statement timed to Saturday’s commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.