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Deportation Diplomacy?: Turkish prime minister uses BBC to renew threats

In a March 16 interview on BBC radio, Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated (for the second time) that Armenia needs to shed its “dependence on Diaspora,” and threatened that at any time he has the power to deport Armenian illegal aliens.

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28.03.2010 02:23
As a Turk,I think it is the inexperience of erdogan about international politics.I guess he make this comment muchly for internal politics for internal consumption.Otherwise this is a politic gaffe... Second those armenians coming Turkey are usually are after their bread..they are poor people.Dealing with weak is not suitable for Turkish nation..We shall deal with America,france other countries.Not we shall chose the easiest populist way. Last those of the one who see it as right to blackmail Turkey and at the same time they see right to visit turkey..It is a moral question that they shall answer...
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25.03.2010 16:24
I believe Mr.Tigran Sarkissian RA rime Ministre's turn is on..he sould address formallto president of Turkey a letter asking him to replace his remiere with aother person.For this person has crosesd the diplomatic ethics and is not really deserving that title above all. That is the east that Tigran Sarkissian can contribute to this issue. Also the allies of r.of turkey, USA and U.K should intervne and "advise ' Mr. Gul to do so.Peraps the next Turkish premiere will be more diplomatic and not come up with such UNDIPLOMATIC utterances.. Moreoverso whe the "Protocols' are being discussed and debated.Shantagiuzoum
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21.03.2010 19:53
Every European country wishes they had the 'stones' to threaten all of their sponging, criminal turkish immigrants as he has. But that aside, Turkey has come a long way in their rhetoric/propaganda if we are complaining about that. Armenia seems to be regressing whereas Turkey is progressing. Our 'revolutionaries' are actually right-wing conservatives and organized criminals (սբիւրք եւ հայաստան).
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18.03.2010 12:11
Mr. Erdoghan is using Mr. Sarksyan, Mr. Nalbandyan, Mr. Sahakyan and other prostitutes of Armenian ethnicity to harm the Sacred Armenian Spirit. Mr. Erdoghan is making a rough mistake and he will perish for sure because he has taken Mr. Heidar Aliev's sins on his own shoulders.
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18.03.2010 09:17
"So he will be walking them down to Deir ez-Zor?" "Gendarmes on horses and the whole works?" I agree with Sam, all the kebabgi's in in Europe need to be deported back to Europe.
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17.03.2010 19:30
To Mr. Erdogan, How about those 5 million Turks who are living in Europe, and are not contributing to anything in European society other than being kebabgi, or being on welfare, and ahving 10 children involved in drugs, and drug trafficing along with other illegal activities. At least the Armenians in Turkey are working with dignity to earn a few dollars in order to survive. Maybe Europe should think about deporting all of them back to Turkey. What to you think?
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17.03.2010 19:28
So far the best result of Armenian diplomacy and politics was to provoke Turkish and Azeri to speak aloud on international forums and media. They often manage to say things damaging their own image.
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17.03.2010 17:19
Well thats what your ancestors started with in 1915, Mr.Erdogan.
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17.03.2010 14:31
"Mass deportations of Armenians" - let us pray that such deportations envisaged by Mr Erdogan will be very different to those carried out by the Turkish authorities in 1915. Turkey does not like the Armenian diaspora, but Mr Erdogan forgets that it was Turkey who created it.
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17.03.2010 08:20
we might have our differences between diaspora and Armenia but this will be solved 'in the family', you can shout whatever you want, Armenia is too small to survive without its diaspora and the diaspora will vanish without Armenia. we are the wings of the nation called Armenia, no wing would want to lose the other wing... When you say 100,000 Armenian citizens exist in Turkey, and based on the 10% rule of your credibility, we could say there are a maximum of 10,000 Armenian citizens in Turkey now.... are you going to slaughter them again after accusing them of being a threat to your nation? who would go and work in Turkey anyway, don't portrait Turkey as if it is a European country with thousands of jobs, you have two seas and a strategic canal and you are still this poor? wait another 100 years maybe then you would know how to advance...
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17.03.2010 06:40
What arrognace. His country is being accused of genocide, and he threatens to deport. What a stupid thing to say. Wow
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