Obama v Turecku:
“America’s relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not just be based on opposition to Al Qaeda,” he (Obama) said. “We seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.”
He drew applause when he said, “The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam.”
a co se týče arménské genocidy:
Mr. Obama also waded into the fraught issue of Turkey’s relations with Armenia, and the genocide of more than a million Ottoman Armenians beginning in 1915. Turkey acknowledges the killings but says they were casualties of war, not a systematic genocide, and has vehemently opposed the introduction of a bill in the United States Congress that would define it that way.
When he was a Senator, Mr. Obama said he supported that view, but during a press conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul before the Parliament speech, he did not use the word genocide and said that Turkey and Armenia had made progress in talks.
During the Parliament speech, he spoke eloquently of the Armenia issue, saying that “history unresolved can be a heavy weight.”
“Our country,” he said, “still struggles with the legacy of our past treatment of Native Americans.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/world ... ml?_r=2&emčili je nepřímo nabádá k uznání genocidy