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Jan 30 2015
Turkey Scrambles to Undo `Mistaken' Publication of Armenian Genocide
Monument Photo
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
30 Jan 20156
As Armenians are gearing up to commemorate the centenary of the
Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish
Foreign Ministry has `mistakenly' published a picture of the Armenian
Genocide Monument amidst a collage of photos in a 2015 calendar.
The Foreign Ministry has scrambled to distance itself from the photo
and an official has said that an investigation has been undertaken to
determine how such an error was possible, assuring that the person
responsible will be punished.
The official also vigorously denied that the photograph is part of a
new policy of `openness' toward Armenia, and added that most of the
calendars have not yet been distributed.
The photograph in question is of the `Monument to the Armenian
Genocide' erected in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and the picture
included in an official calendar prepared to commemorate the Battle of
Çanakkale (the Dardanelles Campaign), fought by Turkey against allied
forces during the First World War. For months the Ottoman troops
successfully repelled Allied forces, who eventually had to withdraw to
Egypt.
This is Turkey's second major blunder concerning Armenia in just
weeks. Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an
invited world leaders, including Armenian President Serzh Sarkysian,
to participate in festivities to be held in Turkey to celebrate the
anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24. That is the very
day when Armenians have been preparing an international event
dedicated to the memory of the Armenian victims.
On Thursday, Turkish President ErdoÄ?an stated that Ankara is `ready to
pay for any misdeed' if an `impartial board of historians' concludes
that it was at fault for the events of 1915, though he continues to
vehemently deny that any genocide was committed.
`We are not obliged to accept that the so-called Armenian genocide was
`made-to-order,'' he said.
ErdoÄ?an also said that while he was prime minister, he had sent a
letter to former Armenian President Robert Kocharian, proposing that
impartial historians investigate the 1915 killings of Anatolian
Armenians during the Ottoman era.
Earlier this month, ErdoÄ?an stated that he would `actively' challenge
a campaign to pressure Turkey to recognize the massacres as genocide.
Pope Francis has announced that he will celebrated a Mass of
commemoration of the Armenian slaughter in the Vatican on April 12,
and has called it the first in a series of genocides in the 20th
century.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/30/turkey-scrambles-to-undo-mistaken-publication-of-armenian-genocide-monument-photo/
Jan 30 2015
Turkey Scrambles to Undo `Mistaken' Publication of Armenian Genocide
Monument Photo
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
30 Jan 20156
As Armenians are gearing up to commemorate the centenary of the
Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish
Foreign Ministry has `mistakenly' published a picture of the Armenian
Genocide Monument amidst a collage of photos in a 2015 calendar.
The Foreign Ministry has scrambled to distance itself from the photo
and an official has said that an investigation has been undertaken to
determine how such an error was possible, assuring that the person
responsible will be punished.
The official also vigorously denied that the photograph is part of a
new policy of `openness' toward Armenia, and added that most of the
calendars have not yet been distributed.
The photograph in question is of the `Monument to the Armenian
Genocide' erected in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and the picture
included in an official calendar prepared to commemorate the Battle of
Çanakkale (the Dardanelles Campaign), fought by Turkey against allied
forces during the First World War. For months the Ottoman troops
successfully repelled Allied forces, who eventually had to withdraw to
Egypt.
This is Turkey's second major blunder concerning Armenia in just
weeks. Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an
invited world leaders, including Armenian President Serzh Sarkysian,
to participate in festivities to be held in Turkey to celebrate the
anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24. That is the very
day when Armenians have been preparing an international event
dedicated to the memory of the Armenian victims.
On Thursday, Turkish President ErdoÄ?an stated that Ankara is `ready to
pay for any misdeed' if an `impartial board of historians' concludes
that it was at fault for the events of 1915, though he continues to
vehemently deny that any genocide was committed.
`We are not obliged to accept that the so-called Armenian genocide was
`made-to-order,'' he said.
ErdoÄ?an also said that while he was prime minister, he had sent a
letter to former Armenian President Robert Kocharian, proposing that
impartial historians investigate the 1915 killings of Anatolian
Armenians during the Ottoman era.
Earlier this month, ErdoÄ?an stated that he would `actively' challenge
a campaign to pressure Turkey to recognize the massacres as genocide.
Pope Francis has announced that he will celebrated a Mass of
commemoration of the Armenian slaughter in the Vatican on April 12,
and has called it the first in a series of genocides in the 20th
century.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/30/turkey-scrambles-to-undo-mistaken-publication-of-armenian-genocide-monument-photo/