U.S. Ambassador to Turkey James Jeffrey has been called to Turkish Foreign Ministry, Hurriyet reported. According to the paper, Jeffery declared that “we are against the resolution approved in the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.”
According to the source, the U.S. diplomat has been seriously alarmed by the Turkish officials. “Messages” to Jeffery warned that the approving of the resolution may deeply harm the Turkish-American ties and the normalization of Armenian-Turkish ties.
Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th century and took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council of Churches.