ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi supported Turkish thesis on the events of 1915 against US President Joe Biden’s controversial declaration that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide. In a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Sunday, Qureshi stressed Islamabad’s support for Ankara’s take on the events of 1915, said an official statement. Turkey, established in 1923 after the Ottoman empire collapsed, has always denied there was a systematic campaign to annihilate Armenians. Turkish Foreign Ministry thanked Pakistan for its support, saying on Twitter: “Thank you brotherly Pakistan! In 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan — then Turkish prime minister and now president — expressed condolences to the descendants of Armenians who lost their lives in the events of 1915.

Source: Pakistan Today April 26, 2021 07:42 UTC