Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday that Turkey was closely monitoring developments in the United States regarding the incidents of 1915.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the United States had not brought the incidents of 1915 onto its agenda, however it did not mean that the incidents would never be brought onto the agenda.
"We are in a close pursuit," Erdogan told reporters after his meeting with his Syrian counterpart Naji al-Utri in Ankara.
Erdogan's remarks came after Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, expressed her willingness to bring the resolution labelling the incidents which took place shortly before the fall of the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
On Monday, government spokesman, State Minister & Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said Turkey thought that it was wrong for the United States to use the incidents of 1915 as an instrument to disturb Turkey, like a means of torture, when April (when Armenians mark the incidents of 1915) was approaching each year.
Cicek said Turkey was uneasy about the initiatives of some U.S. circles to bring up the incidents of 1915 for internal political considerations.
Turkey believed that U.S. executives would behave more calmly and with common sense and would not let some lobbies to harm relations, Cicek also said.
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