Azerbaijani MP: Armenia seeks "genocide" recognition to make territorial claims to Turkey

“Armenia is seeking “genocide” recognition to make territorial claims to Turkey,” Member of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis (Parliament) Sabir Rustamkhanli said.

"European countries began the process of recognizing “Armenian genocide" in the Ottoman Empire a few decades ago. The situation similar to the current one in the U.S. Congress has already taken place earlier. But none of the presidents of the United States responded to this despicable ploy of Armenians so far. I hope that the current U.S. president will do the same,” the MP said.

“Worthy of note is that majority of deputies, accusing Turkey of genocide against Armenians, are not aware of the events that occurred decades ago in the Ottoman Empire. Turkey should partly blame itself for being blackmailed by adoption of "genocide.” This is result of a policy of compromise with the Western countries which put constant pressure on it.”

‘This is not the same Turkey founded by Ataturk and that forced all the world forces to reckon with it. Today Turkey is largely dependent on external forces. Therefore, it is very difficult to say whether the U.S. Congress will accept or reject the "Armenian genocide" bill. But this is not the main thing. The main thing is to prove the whole world that no "Armenian genocide" took place in the Ottoman Empire,” the MP added.

"Armenian claims arose even earlier. For example, they claimed about 10,000 killed during a riot in Erzurum, which was not substantiated during research of this issue by historians. This is the same with the “Armenian genocide" in 1915, when the Armenians turned their weapons against their own state and, in fact, betrayed it,” the MP explained.

“In any case, modern Turkey is not obliged to answer for the events that occurred in the Ottoman Empire. Armenia is seeking recognition of the "Armenian genocide" in order to make territorial claims to Turkey and demand financial compensation. Thus, Yerevan wants to extricate itself from the Khojaly Genocide and to remove Karabakh issue from the agenda,” Rustamkhanli noted.


Z. Ahmadov