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Turkey won't apologize for Armenian Genocide
Yesterday, France suggested Turkey should apologize for the Armenian Genocide prior to gaining EU membership (might have been an empty threat, maybe a bargaining position, maybe serious - Today, Turkey answered)------------------------- December 15, 2004 Turkey will not apologise for Armenian genocide By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent TURKEY has reacted angrily to a demand by France that it accept responsibility for a "genocide" against Armenians nearly 80 years ago, which is thought to have influenced the Nazi Holocaust [the theory here is that the Germans realized that if the Turks could get away with it the Germans could to] .... Historians believe that Turkish authorities orchestrated the killing of 1.5 million Armenian Christians, who were indigenous inhabitants of Turkey, in a brutal attempt to make an ethnically pure nation.... However, a Turkish government spokesman said: "There was no such genocide, so there is no question of recognising a genocide that did not happen." Posted by: mhw 2004-12-15 |
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