Armenian Intellectuals, Leaders Reflect on Obama’s Visit to Turkey
On April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive in Turkey, making it the first Muslim country he visits after taking office. Analysts say his trip will aim at strengthening ties with Ankara, and point to the issue of the Armenian Genocide as possibly the most challenging for the president to deal with during his talks with Turkish officials.
On several occasions during his campaign for president, Obama had promised to properly recognize the massacres and deportations of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, thus angering Turkey, which continues to vehemently deny that there was any genocidal intent towards the Armenians in the last years of the empire. Official Ankara spends millions of dollars in its denial campaign, which lobbies politicians, entices support from journalists, funds academic denial efforts, suppresses education efforts on the Armenian Genocide to the general public in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East (Israel especially).
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“Yeah, lets ignore the middle east peace process, lets turkey invade iraq again and again, let them make more and more ties with iran, let them ally with russia more and more, and enjoy further threats against israel – just to label an event done more than 100 years ago “genocide” – while there is still an academic debate going on on whether it actually was a genocide or not”
Sorry dear caucasian microstate, but you are not THAT important