Genocide recognitions further isolate Turkey

In a comprehensive interview with daily Hürriyet?s Cansu Çaml?bel on April 24, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan underlined in an open way that Armenia?s ?struggle does not end in 2015 ? it will just enter a more mature phase.?  

?Let us not forget that we have had an opportunity to raise the issue of the Armenian Genocide and condemn it only after the declaration of independence of the third Republic of Armenia. And that means that our struggle has just started. And it will be more coordinated and purposeful in the upcoming years,? he told Hürriyet on the occasion of the centennial commemoration of the mass killings of his ancestors at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. 

A years-long vigorous and aggressive campaign by the Armenian state and the Armenian diaspora to get the genocide recognized by more countries yielded important results in 2015. Pope Francis kicked off the flare by describing the 1915 incidents as genocide, in an obvious message delivered to the entire Catholic World. The European Parliament, the Austrian Parliament, German President Joachim Gauck and Russian President Vladimir Putin among many others lined up to express the ?G-word,? at the expense of drawing Turkey?s reaction. The Russian Duma and the German Bundestag were still debating over resolutions for the recognition of the genocide late afternoon on April 24 when this column was being written. 

U.S. President Barack Obama preferred to avoid using ?genocide? to describe the 1915 incidents, but it should not be forgotten that he still has nearly two years left in office and that he may find another opportunity to call this atrocity a genocide. It should be well understood that Obama did not refrain from using this word because of the potential Turkish reaction but...