Adam Schiff: Turkish PM's comments add new measure of cruelty towards Genocide survivors and their families
US Congressman Adam Schiff issued a statement on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Ergogan's threat to expel Armenians from Turkey.
"Prime Minister Erdogan's outrageous threat to expel Armenians from Turkey as punishment for the House Foreign Affairs Committee's recent markup of my Armenian Genocide commemoration resolution is the latest example of a longstanding policy of using Armenians as "human shields" in Ankara's campaign of genocide denial," Rep. Schiff said.
"Ninety-five years after Ottoman troops force marched hundreds of thousands of Armenians through the desert and to their deaths, Erdogan's comments add a new measure of cruelty towards the survivors and their families," he added.
"Prime Minister Erdogan's outrageous threat to expel Armenians from Turkey as punishment for the House Foreign Affairs Committee's recent markup of my Armenian Genocide commemoration resolution is the latest example of a longstanding policy of using Armenians as "human shields" in Ankara's campaign of genocide denial," Rep. Schiff said.
"Ninety-five years after Ottoman troops force marched hundreds of thousands of Armenians through the desert and to their deaths, Erdogan's comments add a new measure of cruelty towards the survivors and their families," he added.
