After the Gwynedd County Council (Wales, UK) adopted the motion recognizing the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey’s Embassy in London made a special statement. According to the Embassy’s press attache Gasbi Akalu, “Armenians were respectable members of the Turkish society and even after 1870, when part of them becoming accomplices of the expansion programs of tsarist Russia, began guerrilla attacks, they nevertheless remain as such”. In his words, owing to efforts of the Ottoman government to dislodge Armenians from the region of the military operations, both Armenian and Turkish parties sufferes losses. “However it was not the policy of Genocide”, the Turkish diplomat said. With an appeal to allow the historians to reach a decision of the historical issues, the Turkish diplomat denied the truth of the blockade of Armenia imposed by Turkey that is mentioned in the Gwynedd motion. “Turkish leadership expects Armenia to demonstrate a constructive and peaceful approach and settle its relations with the neighbors within the frames of the international laws”, the statement of the Turkey’s Embassy runs.
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