Erdogan: Our Door is Still Open to Armenia
Turkey is ready to cooperate with Armenia should it take "positive" steps with regards to genocide allegations as well as to a dispute with Azerbaijan over the region of Karabakh, Turkey's president has said Saturday.
"Our door is still open to Armenia," said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at the inauguration ceremony of various facilities in the northwestern Turkish province of Kocaeli, Anadolu news agency reported.
On Wednesday, the European Parliament adopted the resolution recognizing the 1915 events as genocide. It came three days after Pope Francis also called the 1915 incidents a genocide.
"Politicizing this issue, while pulling off it from the historical basis, will damage mostly Armenians," Erdogan added.
He also reiterated that historical documents about the events were open to all for analysis and called on Armenia and other countries to open their archives, if they had any.
Turkey has called for the establishment of a joint commission of historians and the opening of archives to study and uncover what happened between the Ottoman Empire and its Armenian citizens.
Erdogan also criticized Selahattin Demirtas, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party co-chair, who did not sign a joint statement condemning the European Parliament's resolution.
The ruling AK Party and two main opposition parties, Republican People's Party and Nationalist Movement Party, issued a joint statement on Thursday to condemn the European Parliament’s recent resolution on genocide.
"We are ready to meet and talk with Armenian politicians, who show courage and will, but first the Karabakh dispute has to be resolved," Erdogan added.
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