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    Turkey Slams Report Calling for Armenian Genocide Recognition

    (c) AP Photo
    Middle East
    18:00 14.03.2015(updated 18:41 14.03.2015)


    Turkey's Foreign Ministry's spokesman Tanju Bilgic called the European
    Parliament's report urging the EU member states to recognize the
    Armenian genocide "problematic and controversial in all the aspects."

    (c) East News/ Yvan TRAVERT
    Recognition of Armenian Genocide in Interests of Turkey, Armenia: Diplomat
    MOSCOW (Sputnik) -- The European Parliament's report urging the EU
    member states to recognize the Armenian genocide is concerning and
    "far from historic reality," Turkey's Foreign Ministry's spokesman
    Tanju Bilgic said Saturday.

    "We regret that this [European Parliament's] statement is problematic
    and controversial in all the aspects," Bilgic said in a statement
    published on the ministry's website.

    The European Parliament's Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy
    published earlier this week called "ahead of the 100th anniversary of
    the Armenian genocide, on all the Member States legally to acknowledge
    it, and encourages the Member States and the EU institutions to
    contribute further to its recognition."

    (c) AFP 2015/ FREDERICK FLORIN
    Amal Clooney Criticizes Turkey on Freedom of Speech Hypocrisy
    The Armenian Genocide refers to the Armenia's claims of the Ottoman
    government's extermination of Armenians in their historical homeland
    during the First World War.

    Yerevan says that over 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the
    mass genocide.

    Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, refuses to
    recognize the Armenian Genocide. Ankara argues that the number of
    people killed is hugely exaggerated, and that the Ottoman Empire was
    simply responding to Armenian attacks on Turkish population while it
    was trying to establish the Armenian state on the Anatolian peninsula.

    Commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide
    in the Ottoman Empire will take place in Yerevan on April 24, 2015.


    http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150314/1019496917.html#ixzz3UNNpvawQ

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