Turkey ratifies parliament resolution on Biden Armenian Genocide remarks
A resolution, approved by Turkey’s parliament declaring the US president's remarks on the Armenian Gencoide null and void, was published in the country's Official Gazette on Wednesday, the local sources reported.
Biden on Saturday became the first US president to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire over a century ago as a genocide.
In Tuesday's Grand National Assembly session, the resolution with the signature of Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop was put to vote. The ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Republican People's Party (CHP), the Good (IYI) Party, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) voted in its favor, while the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) voted against it.