'Turkish government has established friendly relations with all countries.'Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the decisions (regarding Armenian allegations on 1915 incidents) that were made by parliaments did not benefit Armenia.
Erdogan attended opening of Ali Vural Ak Global Islam Studies Center established at the George Mason University in Washington, D.C. and deliver a speech on "the Alliance of Civilizations as Vision of Global Peace".
In regard to 1915 incidents, Erdogan said historians should deal with the matter and documents and archives should be studied to reveal the fact. "Parliaments don't write history and they don't judge," he said.
"We put forth our documents and archives. We also said a history commission should be established to deal with the matter, but we did not receive an answer to our call," he said.
Recalling that the 3rd forum of Alliance of Civilizations would take place in Brazil in May, Erdogan said it showed that the Alliance of Civilizations project has become a global one. The 4th one would be held in Doha capital of Qatar in 2011, he added.
Turkish government has established friendly relations with all countries especially neighboring countries in the past seven and half years, he said.
Erdogan said Turkey and Syria launched a process of full cooperation and the two countries were exerting efforts to restore peace in the region.
Despite global economic crisis which started in 2008, Turkey remarkably increased its exports to 22 countries, he said.
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