Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan canceled his trip to the United States in response to the adoption of a resolution of the United States labeling events of 1915 as “genocide” local daily News reported on its website Tuesday.
Caglayan, is director of foreign trade, has been scheduled for U.S. Departing on 19 March with a large business delegation, said the report.
The decision was made Monday at a meeting with the Turkish ambassador in Washington, Namik Tan, who had already recalled in a protest demonstration.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Turkey would not send its ambassador to the United States before we reported clear results, the semi-official Anatolia news agency.
U.S. position in the next time it was very important, “said Erdogan, adding that he does not think the U.S. would sacrifice its strategic partner for simple political talks.
On March 4, Turkey, his ambassador to the United States temporarily Namik Tan minutes after a congressional committee U. S., a resolution on Turkey.
The resolution of Armenian allegations on the incidents of 1915 was adopted based on the House of Representatives U. S. Foreign Affairs Committee by a vote of 23-22.
Normalize Turkey and Armenia have signed two protocols in October last year, relations, however, the parliaments of both countries have not yet passed.
Turkey categorically rejects the genocide charges and sees the events as a civil war in time of war, the lives of many Turks and Armenians claimed.
Turkey and Armenia are locked in dispute over the killing of Armenians, and do not have diplomatic and economic relations since Armenia declared its independence in 1991.