Turkish Ambassador to US Left for Washington Today

Turkey’s Ambassador to the US, Namik Tan, left for Washington this morning weeks after he was recalled as a sign of protest for the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopting a resolution which recognized the mass killings and deportations of Armenians (as well as Assyrians, Syrians, Greeks and Chaldeans) in 1915 as Genocide.

“We received satisfactory messages from the United States. I am going back to Washington to my responsibilities. I will see Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu there,” said Tan at the airport before leaving, adding he hoped that the positive atmosphere in bilateral relations would be preserved.

A World Nuclear Summit is planned to be held in Washington from April 12-13 and attended by Erdoğan and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. A meeting between Erdoğan and Sargsyan is expected to be brokered by US President Barack Obama.