Erdoğan: ‘Should Get Their Blood Tested in Laboratory’

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Sabahattin Zaim University 2015-2016 academic year graduation ceremony has commented on the Armenian Genocide Resolution recognizing the Armenian killings as “genocide”.

President Erdoğan as to the resolution has noted; “A smartass comes up, prepares some stuff and submits it to German Parliament. And some claim these are Turks. Hell no! Their blood should be tested in laboratory”.

“Germany will answer for the Holocaust first”

President Erdoğan in short has noted;

“Germany, I’m telling you again; first you will answer for the Holocaust. Also you will give account of how you have massacred more than 100.000 in Namibia.

“You are maybe the last country to vote for an Armenian Genocide bill against Turkey and Turks in its parliament. Moreover, we don’t have any problem with our history on this issue anyway”.

Claim of ‘we are handing over Armenian assets’

“As of today, there approximately are 100.000 Armenians in Turkey. Half of these are our citizens, the other half are not. We could have a much different approach. If we were an Armenian hostile country, we would send all those back to Armenia.

“They claim, we have demolished and confiscated Armenian churches. On the contrary, we are handing them over the churches in their foundation trusts.

“If they have assets, we hand these over to them. Here are over 1 million documents in our archives which are examined”.

“Send in your archeologists”

“If you trust yourself and have some honour, send in your lawyers, historians and archeologists.

“If it comes out as you claim, we are ready to face anyone. But they did not dare do that.

“A smartass comes up, prepares some stuff and submits it to German Parliament. And some claim these are Turks. Hell no! Their blood should be tested in laboratory”. (AS/DG)

* Photograph: Yasin Bülbül – İstanbul / AA