The Turkish government has asked the Trump administration to issue a public response to US House of Representatives that recognised the Armenian genocide and passed a sanctions bill against Turkey on the country’s national day.
Erdogan also asked “the Trump administration to issue a public statement opposing the recognition of the genocide and the sanctions bill,” which symbolically were passed on the 96th anniversary of the Turkish Republic.
Like previous US governments, the Trump administration has not formally recognised the Armenian genocide. Ankara rejects the term “genocide” and insists that the 1915 mass killings were part of a civil war that saw deaths on both sides. The reality, however, is that 1.5 million of the Armenian community were killed and hundreds of thousands more expelled.
