PM Says ‘Ordinary Incidents’ for Armenian Genocide

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Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has spoken at Ankara Esenboğa Airport prior to his visit to Northern Cyprus as to the Armenian Genocide bill to be discussed tomorrow (May 2) in Germany.

Yıldırım using the phrase “ordinary incidents” for the Armenian Genocide said “Absurd voting” for the voting of the bill and expressed that the relations with Germany will be damaged.

Yıldırım said the following as to the matter:

“Incidents that could happen in any society…”

“First of all, this voting is ridiculous. [Allegations] out of the whole cloth, ordinary incidents lived in World War First conditions and could happen in any society.

“May every country’s past, history be researched but may it be carried out by historians. It is wrong if we turn it into a tool of politics”.

“Relations will be damaged”

“That is why our relations with Germany will be damaged. We don’t want that.

“That is why Mr. President [Recep Tayyip Erdoğan] called Mrs. [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, and that Mrs. Merkel called me as I am the Prime Minister and I expressed her our sensitivity.

“I hope they won’t turn a deaf ear to 3.5 million Turks in Germany. I hope reason will prevail”.

Yıldırım added that even if the bill is adopted, they won’t recognize it. (EKN/TK)