ArmInfo. Marianna Mkrtchyan. A wave of recognition by various countries and municipalities of cities in the last days of the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, a heavy burden fell on the shoulders of Turkey, which decided to recoup through attacks on Armenia.
After the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Chavushoglu attacked Italy, France and the president of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron with criticism, and Armenia's turn has come.
The head of the Turkish diplomacy asked a rhetorical question as to why Armenia does not withdraw its troops allegedly from "historical territories", while forgetting, by the way or intentionally keeping silent, that these territories, like all parts of Eastern Turkey, are originally Armenian, and that they are firmly settled in these territories due to the fact that they planned and perpetrated a massacre of the indigenous Armenian population.
At the same time, he spoke about honesty, urging the representatives of Armenia to be first of all honest with themselves in regard to events in the region. "All international structures into which Armenia is included, clearly record the fact of the "occupation of Azerbaijani territories". Why is Armenia not withdrawing its troops from Karabakh?" Said Chavushoglu, without naming any structure that would recognize this fact.
As if by the way, the Turkish Foreign Minister suddenly recalled the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, while forgetting that it was Ankara that failed to implement the Zurich Protocols, putting forward preconditions. "We have clearly stated that we are ready to open the border with Armenia on the condition of withdrawing troops from "Azerbaijani territories"," the Turkish Foreign Minister said, again noting that the normalization of relations between Yerevan and Ankara did not initially provide for any conditions.
In order to further support the "younger brother", the Foreign Minister stressed that any problem of Azerbaijan directly affects the interests of Turkey. "Armenians speak about justice and at the same time spread lies about a certain genocide. At the same time, official Yerevan refuses to create a joint scientific commission to discuss the events of 1915 in the Ottoman state," Chavushoglu said, complaining that Armenia refused to create a commission that makes a " bet against" and it allegedly does not have confidence in its arguments. At the same time, Chavushoglu forgot about countless actual evidence of the fact of the Armenian Genocide, more than two dozen countries that not only recognized, but also condemned this crime, and some countries even criminalized the fact of denial of the genocide.
For more convincing, in conclusion, the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry hurried to appeal with baseless accusations about the alleged presence of a large number of Armenians in the ranks of, as he put it, KWP (Kurdistan Workers' Party) "terrorists" who are being destroyed by the Turkish armed forces. At the same time, he did not mention that the Workers' Party of Kurdistan has for many years been fighting for the political rights of the Kurds in Turkey and the creation of Kurdish autonomy within Turkey.