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YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: The United States of America places its national interest higher than the human values and principles, which should have been the most urgent issues for the state. This point of view belongs to the Turkish intellectual, genocide expert Ragip Zarakolu.
Commenting on the fact in the talk with Armenpress, Zarakolu stated that despite the promises made, the US President Barack Obama has not pronounced the word “genocide” and continued the denial policy. Zarakolu said that it was impossible to expect another thing. He stressed that the US and Turkey are connected with economic and political interests and in this case Obama subordinated the human value to the economic one.
“The US places its national interest higher than the truth. Today Turkey has launched a campaign against the Pope Francis of Rome. He is a strong personality. He is not Obama. He did not change his stance and used the term of his position to accept the pain of the Armenian people”, - he said, adding that today the mentality in Turkey changes in this sense.