Turkey on Friday strongly condemned President Vladimir Putin and the State Duma for reaffirming Russia's recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire but stopped short of recalling its ambassador in Moscow.
"We reject and condemn the labelling of the 1915 events as 'genocide' by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, despite all our warnings and calls. Such political statements, which are flagrant violation of law, are null and void for Turkey," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry charged that Russia itself is guilty of mass killings committed in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia over the past century and has no moral right to accuse other states of genocide.
Armenian News
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