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ERDOGAN CONDEMNS POPE FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMENT
The Times of Israel
April 14 2015
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses anger over the pope's
use of the word genocide to describe the mass killings of Armenians
in World War I, saying such talk was nonsense and the pontiff should
not repeat such a mistake again.
"If politicians and religious leaders do the job of historians then
we will not get to the truth and only end with nonsense," Erdogan says
in a speech in Ankara in his first reaction to the pope's comments.
"Respected pope: I condemn this mistake and warn against making it
again," he says to applause from an audience of businessmen.
Turkey has vehemently rejected the use of the term genocide to describe
the Ottoman era killings and is keeping to its line during the current
100th anniversary of the tragedy.
-- AFP
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/erdogan-condemns-pope-for-armenian-genocide-comment/
The Times of Israel
April 14 2015
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses anger over the pope's
use of the word genocide to describe the mass killings of Armenians
in World War I, saying such talk was nonsense and the pontiff should
not repeat such a mistake again.
"If politicians and religious leaders do the job of historians then
we will not get to the truth and only end with nonsense," Erdogan says
in a speech in Ankara in his first reaction to the pope's comments.
"Respected pope: I condemn this mistake and warn against making it
again," he says to applause from an audience of businessmen.
Turkey has vehemently rejected the use of the term genocide to describe
the Ottoman era killings and is keeping to its line during the current
100th anniversary of the tragedy.
-- AFP
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/erdogan-condemns-pope-for-armenian-genocide-comment/