ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Ministry welcomes international reaction to the denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We welcome the international reaction to the policy of denial of the Armenian Genocide by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. With this decision, the Netherlands and members of the country's parliament once again demonstrated their principled stance on human rights and the prevention of genocides," the Armenian Foreign Ministry states related to the statement adopted by the House of Representatives of the Netherlands condemning the recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Armenian Genocide. Earlier, it became known that the House of Representatives of the Netherlands adopted a statement condemning the recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Armenian Genocide. "The Netherlands Parliament condemned Erdogan's hated remarks against the victims of the Armenian Genocide. We thank the parliamentarians who supported the statement," representative of the Armenian community of the Netherlands Mato Hakhverdyan wrote in his Twitter, adding that the lower house of the Netherlands parliament also obliged the government to inform the Turkish authorities about the position of parliamentarians on the subject.
The Deputy President of the Armenian parliament, Alen Simonyan, reported in particular: "I was pleased to learn that the House of Representatives of the Netherlands almost unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the insult to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 24 this year. Special thanks to the MPs representing various political forces who initiated the resolution and to the members of the Abovyan Union "Inga Drost and Mato Hakhverdyan for their energetic and productive efforts."
On the eve of the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, Erdogan said that "the deportation of Armenian predatory gangs and their supporters, exterminating Muslims of Anatolia and even women, children and old people, was the most reasonable decision that could be taken during this period".