Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that 1915 incidents should be examined by historians, not parliaments.
Replying questions of reporters about Armenian resolution on 1915 incidents during his joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Erdogan said that Turkey’s stance was obvious about the issue.
We should leave this issue to historians; parliaments are not the places to discuss this issue, added Erdogan.
Noting that he sent a letter to Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharian in 2005 (which proposes to set up a joint historians commission to examine 1915 incidents), Erdogan said that he had not received a response to the letter yet.
Erdogan said that currently there was a normalization process in the relations between Turkey and Armenia, adding that decisions of other countries (to adopt Armenian resolution on 1915 incidents) were affecting the normalization process negatively.
The Prime Minister also told that he had discussions with Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding fictional “genocide.”
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