Turkey summons US ambassador after Biden statement on genocide

Turkey summons US ambassador after Biden statement on genocide.

Foreign Ministry of Turkey summoned the US ambassador in Ankara.

It lodged protest over the US President Joe Biden’s decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide”.

Turkey summons US ambassador after Biden statement on genocide

Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield on Saturday.

He expressed Turkey’s strong condemnation.

Meanwhile, Turkey rejected the U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement.

According to a ministry statement, Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal told Satterfield that Ankara rejected Biden’s comment.

Moreover, Turkey “found it unacceptable and condemned it in the stongest terms.”

The statement further stated that it caused a “wound in ties that will be hard to repair.”

During his campaign for president last year, Biden said he would “support a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

Besides, he said he would make universal human rights a top priority.”

In a letter Wednesday, a bipartisan group of 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives urged Biden to become the first U.S. president to recognize the killings as genocide.

Furthermore, the letter stated the shameful silence of the United States Government on the historic fact of the Armenian Genocide has gone on for too long.

The HoR members emphasized that it must end.

Moreover, they urged President Biden to follow through on your commitments and speak the truth.

GTV