Erdoğan visits India with guilt of genocide: The New Indian Express

The New Indian Express has referred to the visit of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan India, mentioning that he arrives in India “with guilt of genocide”.

The article reminds that days before Erdoğan’s visit, on April 25, India’s Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari visited Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex in Yerevan, honoring the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, while a day before Erdoğan visit Indian Premier hosted the President of Cyprus.

“This is a tragedy, indescribable things done to humans by humans,” the periodical quoted the Vice President of India referring to the Armenian genocide.

“The Armenian Genocide is often termed as the first genocide of the 20th century by Armenian historians, a contention countered by Turks by calling it inter-communal warfare and wartime relocation.

By acknowledging Armenian genocide, New Delhi is provoking Ankara that has often threatened retaliation against Armenian diaspora pushing for recognition of the killings as a Genocide in their respective parliaments. The second message is to visiting Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades for whom India rolled out the red carpet and it would be hard for President Erdogan to ignore.

PM Narendra Modi reiterated India’s support for the sovereignty of Cyprus”, the article says, stressing that this is a demonstration of India’s masculine foreign policy of India against Turkey’s support to Pakistan’s position on Kashmir.