ANCA: Turkey enlisted U.S. Administration cooperation to block Armenian Genocide recognition

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Americans made their final push in their month-long Countdown to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a White House call-in day urging President Barack Obama to honor his campaign pledge by telling visiting Erdogan that the U.S. condemns the Armenian Genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee of America, (ANCA).



"In April, President Obama missed an opportunity to reclaim the moral high ground on ending the cycle of genocide," stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "Today, in his meeting with Prime Minister Erdogan, we urge President Obama to 'get it right' - by recognizing the Armenian Genocide and urging Turkey's leadership to do the same."



The ANCA Executive Director expressed concerns about Prime Minister Erdogan's efforts to use the meeting with Obama to continue U.S. complicity in Armenian Genocide denial.



"Prime Minister Erdogan - having succeeded in using the Ankara-inspired Protocols to enlist the cooperation of yet another U.S. Administration into its campaign to block recognition of the Armenian Genocide - is now coming to Washington to cement his gains and further press his advantage," said Aram Hamparian.



"High on his agenda, it seems, will be showcasing Turkey's public disregard for President Obama's twin priorities for Armenia-Turkey normalization, namely that they be established without preconditions and within a reasonable time-frame. Today, more than seven months after our President's speech in Ankara - during which he broke his pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide - it's patently clear that Turkey has in fact imposed preconditions, will not act in a reasonable time-frame, and, more broadly, views this entire process as simply a way to extend U.S. complicity in Turkey's denials from one April 24th to the next," added Hamparian.