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U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Turkey John Bass believes the instability along Turkey’s southernborder gives renewed urgency for Ankara to build stronger relationships with other neighbors – Israel, Armenia, and Cyprus.

Speaking during the hearings in Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bass said one issue that confronts all democracies as they look to the future is how they deal with the past.

“We continue to encourage Turkey and Armenia to move towards normalization as a means
of creating the peaceful, productive and prosperous relationship that the people of both countries deserve,” the diplomat said.

John Bass recalled that on this year’s Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Erdogan expressed his condolences to the grandchildren of those Armenians killed during World War I.

“That gesture and other positiveefforts by the Turkish government in recent months indicate that the space for dialogue is opening. But more can be done, and we encourage both sides to pursue a full, frank, and just acknowledgement of the facts surrounding the tragic events of 1915,” he emphasized.

 

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