Turkey Demands Explanation on Iran’s Armenian Genocide Statement
Aug 30th, 2010 | Category: Featured NewsBy Eva Sahakyan
YEREVAN, August 30 — The Iranian Vice President and Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization Chief Hamid Baghai during the conference “Iran: the Bridge of Victory” announced that the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against the Armenian people, Turkish news agencies inform. The conference was devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Iranian conquest in World War 2.
Turkish people are agitated by this announcement, which the Turkish mass media characterize as “shocking” and “a stab in the back.”
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, told journalists that he had a talk with the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki. “My Iranian counterpart said that the words of the Iranian Vice President were misrepresented by the mass media. We do not have the recordings of what he said in Persian. However, I said that I will wait for explanations to this question,” Davutoglu said.
Mr. Mottaki promised to give additional clarifications concerning Baghai’s announcement on the Armenian Genocide.
Yerevan Report
Photo credit: Reuters
Photo caption: Mottaki, left and Davutoglu
This is what happens when a political official speaks out of turn or without permission. The Iranian gov,not unlike Isreal have other considerations to think about besides historical truth. Every once in a while the truth slips out. Sooner than later they (the Turks) will have no choice but to settle up. The longer it takes these people the worse it will be for them.