The Turkish parliament delegation, that observed the process of the hearing on the “Armenian genocide” issue at the US House Committee today, called the voting process “a comedy”.
“This is not history, this is a comedy”, Murat Mercan, the head of foreign committee of Turkish Parliament told APA’s Washington correspondent after the voting.
According to him, US Congress Committee made a biggest mistake in its history.
Mr. Mercan pointed out that, the voting process was prolonged for no usual reason. “This is the biggest shame against the history” – he added.
Turkish representative also stressed that, his government will respond to that sharply. “The results of this decision will be observed in the shortest time” – he added.
Then other member of Turkish delegation, former Turkish ambassador to the US Shukru Elekdag believes that, this it’s unfair decision the Congress stroke a major blow to the Turkish-Armenian negotiations and Nagorno-Karabakh peace process as well.
“We said from the very beginning that we are not bluffing”, - Mr. Mercan added to his colleges opinion.
MERCAN: IT IS DANGEROUS TO PUT PROTOCOLS SINGED WITH ARMENIA ON THE AGENDA OF TURKISH PARLIAMENT IN THIS SITUATION
Chairman of the Turkish Parliament’s Commission on Foreign Affairs Murat Mercan called the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing a comedy.
Mercan said Turkey wouldn’t loss and others wouldn’t gain anything what the US Congress’ conclusion to be. “Only a handful of Armenians in America will win. They undermined good will policy for stability in the region”.
Mercan said some Congressmen were under the pressure during the voting at the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs. “My personal opinion is that they performed a comedy. Some congressmen who didn’t join the voting faced with the pressure by Committee Chairman Berman. This draft resolution was worked out unilaterally and distorted the history. We can not accept that. Our nation has a glorious history and it is not suitable for our nation to make any explanation about this document. Americans like comedies and sitcoms”.
Mercan said they concerned about that the draft resolution would create problems for the Turkish-American relations and damage on normalization process between Turkey and Armenia. He said it would be dangerous to put protocols signed with Armenia on agenda of Turkish parliament without satisfactory explanation of the Armenian constitutional court’s decision from the view of international law and elaboration of detailed roadmap on the solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
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