ArmInfo. Member of the US House of Representatives Frank Pallone commented on the statement of Turkish President Recep Erdogan about the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
"This hate-filled speech Erdogan gave yesterday on the day to commemorate the Armenian Genocide was a disgusting denial of historical facts. I stand with Nikol Pashinyan and Armenians everywhere in condemning a new low from this brutal authoritarian," stressed the congressman on his Twitter page.
To note, on April 24, Turkish President Recep Erdogan sent a letter to the Acting Patriarch of Constantinople, Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, in which he noted that 1.5 million Armenians had become victims of the First World War victims of the previously planned Genocide. And during one event, he said that many at that time were the result of unrest provoked by "Armenian gangsters and armed groups."
"The deportation of Armenian gangster groups and their supporters who killed the kulman of Western Anatolia, sparing neither women nor children, at that time was the most reasonable decision," Erdogan said.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the speech of the Turkish President on April 24 a new level of denial of the Armenian Genocide and "an excuse for the massacre of the nation." The head of Armenia called on the international community to respond to the hated remarks of the Turkish president.
" Calling victims of Armenian Genocide, Ottoman Empire's entire Armenian population, which was sent to death marches, as "Armenian gangs & thr supporters", killing 1.5mm & justifying it by "most reasonable action" is not just new high in denialism,but justification of nation murder", Pashinyan wrote in his Twitter microblog.