ArmInfo. A meeting of the Supreme Advisory Council was held at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, chaired by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu reports.
"The meeting participants discussed measures to counter the" baseless insinuations "around the events of the Ottoman Empire in 1915," the head of the Office of Public Relations of the Presidential Administration of Turkey Fakhrettin Altun said at the end of the event. According to him, the Higher Advisory Council focused on the development of steps that would impede the use by various circles for events allegedly based on "lies and slander of political goals" that took place in a period full of difficulties and suffering for all citizens of the Ottoman Empire.
<At the meeting, steps were discussed to counteract the propaganda based on baseless speculation, carried out by the Armenian lobby, using the events of 1915 as a political tool to denigrate Turkey and its people, as well as by states exploiting this issue based on their political calculations. They also discussed actions aimed at conveying to the national and international public the historical and legal aspects of this issue>, he said, without even mentioning 1.5 million dead of Armenians in that period.
Altun noted that during the meeting, President Erdogan emphasized the futility of attempts to "sow the seeds of hostility by distorting historical events".