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    OVER 90 PCT OF TURKS DENY GENOCIDE: POLL

    The Daily Star, Lebanon
    Jan 14 2015

    Agence France Presse

    ANKARA: Less than 10 percent of Turks believe their government should
    recognize the mass killings of Armenians in World War I as genocide,
    according to a survey published Tuesday.

    On the 100th anniversary of the tragedy this year, the poll revealed
    that only 9.1 percent of those questioned believe Ankara should
    apologize for the deaths during Ottoman rule in 1915 and describe
    them as genocide.

    Another 9.1 percent were in favor of an apology without admitting
    to genocide.

    Turkey rejects calls to recognize the killings as genocide, saying
    up to 500,000 Armenians died in fighting and of starvation after
    Armenians sided with invading Russian troops. It claims a comparable
    number of Turks were also killed.

    Last year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered an unprecedented
    expression of condolence for the massacres when he was prime minister
    but this did little to satisfy Armenians, who want the deaths of an
    estimated 1.5 million people recognized as genocide.

    The survey, which was carried out between November and December by
    the Istanbul-based Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies,
    was based on responses from 1,508 people.

    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jan-14/284012-over-90-pct-of-turks-deny-genocide-poll.ashx



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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