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GRANDAD KILLED IN A 'GENOCIDE' MASSACRE
The Sun (England)
February 16, 2015 Monday
Ireland Edition
by MICHAEL McHUGH
AN Irish man who believes his grandfather was killed and buried in an
Armenian mass grave has called on the British and Irish governments
to recognise the deaths as genocide.
Paul Manook said his grandfather was lined up alongside other men in
a village in eastern Turkey by Ottoman Turkish soldiers a century ago.
He was never seen again.
Turkey has apologised for the killings but denies Armenian claims
that up to 1.5 million people died in an act of genocide during the
First World War when troops targeted the Christian minority.
Mr Manook, 64, from Millisle in Co Down, said: "I have a strong
feeling they must have killed them and buried them in mass graves."
The dispute between the two sides centres on the definition of
genocide.
The Sun (England)
February 16, 2015 Monday
Ireland Edition
by MICHAEL McHUGH
AN Irish man who believes his grandfather was killed and buried in an
Armenian mass grave has called on the British and Irish governments
to recognise the deaths as genocide.
Paul Manook said his grandfather was lined up alongside other men in
a village in eastern Turkey by Ottoman Turkish soldiers a century ago.
He was never seen again.
Turkey has apologised for the killings but denies Armenian claims
that up to 1.5 million people died in an act of genocide during the
First World War when troops targeted the Christian minority.
Mr Manook, 64, from Millisle in Co Down, said: "I have a strong
feeling they must have killed them and buried them in mass graves."
The dispute between the two sides centres on the definition of
genocide.