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MUSLIM CLERIC FETHULLAH GULEN TERMS MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS IN OTTOMAN TURKEY AS GENOCIDE
by Ashot Safaryan
Tuesday, April 14, 00:33
A letter, penned by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen nearly 50 years
ago, has revealed the Muslim cleric recognizes the 1915-1916 killings
as genocide; a claim Armenia defends. Gulen is the ideological and
political opponent of Turkey President Recep Erdogan.
"...I can not continue without condemning the genocide perpetrated
against Armenians in 1915. I commemorate the victims of Genocide
with a deep respect," said Gulen in the letter written to Archbishop
Shinork Kalusyan, the former Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul on May
6,1965. "I condemn with indignation and abhorrence the massacre of
children of your great Prophet Jesus Christ by some ignorant people
who think they are Muslim," Yeni Safak quotes the letter.
"All nations and people are actually brothers and sisters because the
grandmother of all of us is Eve and the grandfather is Adam. Man is
mortal. Living as brothers is a need," he said. Gulen was serving as
a preacher in K?rklareli when he penned these lines to Kalusyan.
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by Ashot Safaryan
Tuesday, April 14, 00:33
A letter, penned by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen nearly 50 years
ago, has revealed the Muslim cleric recognizes the 1915-1916 killings
as genocide; a claim Armenia defends. Gulen is the ideological and
political opponent of Turkey President Recep Erdogan.
"...I can not continue without condemning the genocide perpetrated
against Armenians in 1915. I commemorate the victims of Genocide
with a deep respect," said Gulen in the letter written to Archbishop
Shinork Kalusyan, the former Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul on May
6,1965. "I condemn with indignation and abhorrence the massacre of
children of your great Prophet Jesus Christ by some ignorant people
who think they are Muslim," Yeni Safak quotes the letter.
"All nations and people are actually brothers and sisters because the
grandmother of all of us is Eve and the grandfather is Adam. Man is
mortal. Living as brothers is a need," he said. Gulen was serving as
a preacher in K?rklareli when he penned these lines to Kalusyan.
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