On the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked for a remedy on the fate of the normalization protocols Turkey signed with Armenia last fall, Hurriyet Daily News columnist Cengiz Aktar writes in his “The Anatolian Disapora” article.
“Since he is the main cause of the problem when it comes to the current situation regarding the protocols, he is supposed to find the solution. But this is not an easy task for him as first and foremost he needs to change his references. The notions and concepts regarding the Armenian question and those used by Turkish politicians should be reassessed thoroughly. One of these notions is the “Armenian diaspora” of which sizable numbers are settled in the United States,” the article says.
“The word “diaspora” has a negative connotation in Turkish so much that it cannot be used, for instance, for over a million Turkish-descent Germans who have become a genuine diaspora in Germany after being granted naturalization and citizenship rights. The diaspora, in official language, is the name of a group which is known as the eternal enemy of Turkey.”
