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    TURKISH ANGER AS POPE TALKS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    The Tablet , UK
    June 10 2013

    The Turkish Foreign Ministry has expressed its "disappointment"
    at Pope Francis for using the word "genocide" to describe the mass
    killings of Armenians during the First World War.

    Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from
    Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World
    War I as "the first genocide of the twentieth century".

    Pope Francis used the term at a meeting with a delegation led by
    Nerses Bedros XIX, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, on 3 June -
    the first time he has used the term since being elected Pope.

    Today the Armenian News Agency Armenpress reported that at the official
    opening ceremony of the Armenian embassy in the Vatican on Friday
    the Pope also said that he wanted to hold a religious ceremony in
    the Armenian capital, Yerevan, during the 2015 ceremony to mark the
    centenary of the genocide.

    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/5387


    From: Baghdasarian
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