{"id":11633,"date":"2009-04-25T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:41:44","slug":"azerbaijani-politicians-and-political-analysts-comment-on-barack-obamas-24-april-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/04\/25\/azerbaijani-politicians-and-political-analysts-comment-on-barack-obamas-24-april-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijani politicians and political analysts comment on Barack Obama\u2019s 24 April statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Baku. Elnur Mammadli \u2013 APA. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s opinion on the \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d is unscientific approach to history. Such political approaches to history do not serve peace,\u201d chairman of Musavat Party Isa Gambar told APA. He said the happenings, which caused the tragedy of people of various nations during the World War I, are introduced in the West as the tragedy or even genocide of Armenians.
\n\u201cPresident Obama says in his statement \u201cThe contributions that Armenians have made over the last ninety-four years stand as a testament to the talent, dynamism and resilience of the Armenian people\u201d. Does this \u201ctestament\u201d also cover the fate of tens of thousands of Azerbaijanis killed by them in 1918? Does the \u201ctestament\u201d covers ethnic cleansing policy carried by Armenians in Armenia, occupation of Azerbaijani territories, ethnic cleansing policy in Karabakh, Khojaly genocide? I think President Obama and other politicians would rather think over these questions?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Member of Political Board of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) Aydin Mirzazadeh noted that Barack Obama had been expected to make sensational statement on April 24. He said Obama\u2019s words during the election campaign were natural.
\n\u201cBut when in power attention is paid to the state\u2019s national interests. It is important for the US to preserve the relations with Turkey. American society knows that genocide claims are Armenians\u2019 lies. I did not see unusual and sever views in Obama\u2019s speech. There is nothing unusual in his calling the events of 1915 great tragedy. It should not be regarded only as an opinion favoring Armenians. Several expressions used by Obama to the advantage of Armenians are of diplomatic character. I think Armenians will not achieve their goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Chairman of Azerbaijan Democratic Party Serdar Jalaloglu said when speaking about \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d, one should speak about the massacres committed by America against Hindus, and by France against Algeria.
\n\u201cRaising of \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d in the world is Christian fanaticism and aims to exert pressure on Turkey and revenge for 400-year policy of Ottoman Empire in Europe. The present position of the US is vague. Such claims do not serve security and peace in the world, on the contrary pave the way for mutual claims among states and peoples. It can become a precedent and other peoples may raise other claims. US and other countries\u2019 supporting Armenians is not in line with their position and status in the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to political scientist Mubariz Ahmadoghlu, US President Bakak Obama does not understand the importance of Turkey and Turkey\u2019s important role in Middle East policy. \u201cObama approaches Turkey as a tool and compares Turkey with 70 million population with 8 million Armenians in the world. However, if Turkey takes resolute steps, it will take even less than a year that Obama will understand what mistakes he made in his speech. Only fifty percent of archives have been opened in Armenia and sixty percent of them were studied. In general only 30 percent of documents on genocide claims have been studied so far. If Obama supports such opinion basing on 30 percent of archive materials, it shows that he is a man of straw\u201d.<\/p>\n

To political scientist Ilgar Mammadov, Obama\u2019s calling 1915 events as \u201cgreat tragedy\u201d is not a word expressed against Turkey: \u201cOf course, Turks, Armenians and others lost their lives on that time, because of World War I. It\u2019s a positive case that Obama did not use the term \u201cgenocide\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apa<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baku. Elnur Mammadli \u2013 APA. \u201cI think that U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s opinion on the \u201cArmenian genocide\u201d is unscientific approach to history. Such political approaches to history do not serve peace,\u201d chairman of Musavat Party Isa Gambar told APA. He said the happenings, which caused the tragedy of people of various nations during the World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":11634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[1387],"class_list":["post-11633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question","category-usa","tag-unscientific-approach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}