Erdoğan: US House resolution on 1915 events cast shadow on relations
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said a House of Representatives' resolution on Armenia "cast a shadow on relations" with the United States. "I have told Mr President that the decisions taken by the House of Representatives on October 29 served this purpose, offended our people and overshadowed our relations," he told a press conference at White House.
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- Published Date: 01:03 | 14 November 2019
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Turkey's president says his country was ``hurt deeply'' by a House resolution that recognized the 1915 Armenian events as genocide.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says at a White House news conference that the House-passed measure has the potential to cast a "deep shadow over our bilateral relations."
"I have told Mr President that the decisions taken by the House of Representatives on October 29 served this purpose, offended our people and overshadowed our relations," he told a press conference.
The House voted 405-11 on a non-binding resolution to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide a century ago.
Erdoğan said the Armenian "events some 104 years ago under war conditions has to be discussed by historians, not politicians," adding that Turkey was ready to open its state archives.
Erdoğan also stressed that Turkey and the United States could overcome their problems over Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system.
"We can overcome the tests we are facing, particularly regarding the S-400 system and F-35, only through dialogue," Erdoğan told a joint press conference with Trump.
Turkey was suspended from the US-led F-35 fighter jet programme after buying the Russian system this year.
Erdoğan said he told Trump that Turkey can buy US Patriot missiles "if offered with the desired conditions," in a reference to the price.