Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 100 thousand illegal Armenian migrants can be deported from the country.
“There are 170 thousand Armenians living in Turkey. 70 thousand of them are Turkish citizens. If necessary, I will tell the remaining 100 thousand to leave. I can do so because they are not Turkish citizens and I’m not obliged to keep them in my country,” BBC Turkce quoted Erdogan as saying.
The fierce reaction of the Turkish PM came after the adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution, H.Res.252, by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee on March 4 and passage of a resolution recognizing the Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Pontiac Greeks by the Swedish parliament on March 11.
