USA, Washington, Dec. 2 / Trend News N. Bogdanova /
The Turkish community in the U.S. launched a campaign against the Armenian diaspora this week. The Turkish American Council appealed to Turks living and working in Washington, asking them to lobby Congress and stunt the Armenian diaspora's efforts to derail the critical path to rapprochement undertaken by Armenia and Turkey.
The Armenian community in the U.S. is looking to pass a resolution falsely accusing Turkey of genocide, the organization said.
The Turkish American Council asked Turks living in the U.S. to contact their members of Congress, and "to stand up for regional peace and against false accusations and anti-Turkish hatred."
The organization added that the Azerbaijani diaspora supports their campaign a great deal.
"Many Azerbaijanis are contacting us and expressing a willingness to influence Congress members," a community representative said.
The Turkish diaspora said the Armenian diaspora in the U.S. is against Armenia and Turkey normalizing relations.
Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations, but signed a protocol to establish diplomatic ties and a protocol to develop bilateral relations in Zurich Oct. 10. These protocols must be ratified by the parliaments of both countries to come into force.
The American-Armenians noted that a committee will be established in the future to investigate the history of the 1915 events in accordance with the signed protocols. They claim that the step is a tactic to hide the "genocide" against the Armenian people.
The Turkish American Council thinks that Armenians are not only continuing their occupying policy in the region, but are also interfering in regional cooperation. Diaspora representatives say they are going to actualize all these issues in high-level Turkish-U.S. dialogue.
On Dec. 7, Turkish Prime Minister Receb Erdogan will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington to discuss the Armenian-Turkish protocols. Turkey plans to state once again that without progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, the protocols will be difficult to ratify. Erdogan and Obama will discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and the Nabucco project.
