Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan yesterday and today he will hold a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. "I am sure that Obama will not utter the word "genocide" to define 1915 incidents," said he. Speaking to American CNN television, Erdogan said, "I do not expect such thing to happen, because no American leader ever used this term. I do not believe Obama will utter it either."
Replying the questions of journalist Christian Amanpour, Prime Minister Erdogan said that Turkey cannot accept defining the incidents as "genocide". In the interview that is published on the website of CNN, Erdogan stressed that 1915 incidents took place while there were rebellion and war in the region. Stating that Turkish people also suffered of huge casualities between 1914 and 1918, Erdogan said, "Any nation does not have the right to impose its own belief of history to another nation. Turkey is not struggling to do that."
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