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    Global Post
    April 12 2015

    Turkey says deeply disappointed by pope's comments on Armenian killings

    Reuters


    ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey told the Vatican's ambassador on Sunday it
    was "deeply sorry and disappointed" that Pope Francis had called the
    1915 mass killings in Armenia a genocide, an official said, adding the
    pope's comments had caused a "problem of trust".

    The pope made the comments earlier in the day during a Mass marking
    the 100th anniversary of the killings.

    Muslim Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes
    with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when Armenia was part of the
    empire ruled from Istanbul, but denies hundreds of thousands were
    killed and that this amounted to genocide.

    (Reporting by Orhan Coskun and Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by David
    Dolan; Editing by Andrew Heavens)


    http://www.globalpost.com/article/6513423/2015/04/12/turkey-says-deeply-disappointed-popes-comments-armenian-killings

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