TURKEY SLAMS DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS FOR ARMENIA GENOCIDE REMARKS
Kathimerini
Jan 29 2008
Greece
ANKARA (AP) - Turkey has criticized US Democratic presidential
hopefuls for backing Armenian views that a century-old mass killings
of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks constituted a genocide. The Turkish
Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend that remarks
by Democratic presidential candidates "for the sake of an internal
party struggle, offends the Turkish nation." The statement did not
name specific candidates.
Kathimerini
Jan 29 2008
Greece
ANKARA (AP) - Turkey has criticized US Democratic presidential
hopefuls for backing Armenian views that a century-old mass killings
of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks constituted a genocide. The Turkish
Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend that remarks
by Democratic presidential candidates "for the sake of an internal
party struggle, offends the Turkish nation." The statement did not
name specific candidates.