03/04/2010 10:43
The US is pleased with Erdogan’s decision
Spokesman of the United States Department of State, Philip Crowley, said Friday the US was pleased with Turkey's decision to send back Ambassador Namik Tan to Washington, D.C.
"We welcome that decision," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. "Turkey and the United States have a significant strategic relationship. There's lots of work that we can jointly accomplish, and that work becomes more effective when we have an able interlocutor here in Washington," he said, quotes AFP news agency.
Ankara recalled Ambassador Namik Tan on March 4 immediately after the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution branding the 1915-17 massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.