Turkey summons US ambassador after Armenian ‘genocide’ statement
Al Jazeera
Turkey condemns US President Joe Biden’s statement, says it opens ‘a wound that’s hard to fix in our relations’.
Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador in Ankara to protest the decision by US President Joe Biden to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide”. Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield on Saturday to express Ankara’s strong condemnation. “The statement does not have legal ground in terms of international law and has hurt the Turkish people, opening a wound that’s hard to fix in our relations,” the ministry said.
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