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| Davutoglu Says Turkey Shares Armenians' 'Pain' over Ottoman-era Killings | |
| 2015-04-21 | |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... shares the pain of Armenians whose parents or grandparents were killed under the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday. "We once again respectfully remember and share the pain of grandchildren and children of Ottoman Armenians who bit the dust during deportation in 1915," Davutoglu said in a statement released by his office to mark the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. Armenians consider the mass killings a genocide, a term Turkey has consistently refused to recognize. Davutoglu made clear once more in the statement that Turkey did not accept the word genocide to describe the killings. "To reduce everything to a single word, to put responsibility through generalizations on the Turkish nation alone... is legally and morally problematic," he said. The relatively conciliatory tone of the statement contrasts with the furious reaction from Ankara early this month when Pope Francis used the term genocide to describe the killings. Davutoglu had on April 12 lashed out at Francis for what he described as "inappropriate" and "one-sided" comments on the issue. The latest statement said the "Ottoman Armenians" would be remembered at a service to be held at the Armenian patriarchate in Istanbul on April 24. Davutoglu said Turks and Armenians should "heal their wounds from that century and reestablish their human relations." The statement builds on an expression of condolences issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... while he was still prime minister in April 2014. In that statement, Erdogan described the killings as "our shared pain" in what was the weightiest statement yet from a Turkish leader on the issue. Armenia and Armenians in the diaspora say 1.5 million of their forefathers were killed by Ottoman forces in a targeted campaign ordered by the military leadership of the Ottoman empire to eradicate the Armenian people from Anatolia in what is now eastern Turkey. Turkey says hundreds of thousands of Turks and Armenians bit the dust as Ottoman forces battled the Russian Empire for control of eastern Anatolia during World War I. The controversy has long prevented the establishment of normal trade and diplomatic relations between Turkey and neighboring Armenia. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Does POTUS Obama know about 1915 + 2030-2050??? * LUCIANNE > OBAMA REFUSES TO TERM/LABEL TURKISH SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANS AS "GENOCIDE". versus * WAFF > [Shoebat] TURKEY IS DEVELOPING IS DEVELOPING ITS OWN LONG-RANGE MISSLES AND SPACE TECHNOLOGIES CLAMING IT WILL SUPERCEDE THE UNITED STATES. Good news for the US-born, US-raised, Convert-to-Islam ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESIAH/HIDDEN IMAM I circa 2030-2050. ZOOOOOOOMG, "SHOEBAT" + "WOTR" BLOGS ARE STILL AROUND??? * GROONG > [War on the Rocks] ARE TURKEY AND SAUDI ARABIA GOING TO WAR IN SYRIA? It depends - does POTUS Obama + OWG Globalists intend for Turkey to de facto be one of Amerika's Co-SUperpower "US-styled" siblings??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-21 22:40 |
| #2 ^ "Baby, I love you. Don't make me hit you again" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-21 20:03 |
| #1 "We hate what we did, and don't make us do it again. It'll just be your own fault." |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-04-21 07:35 |