Posted on 04/17/2015 1:38:35 PM PDT by markomalley
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, has accused the EU of declaring “enmity” on his country as next week’s centenary commemorations of the massacres of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire descend into bitter rows over what to call them.
Both the European Parliament and Pope Francis this week referred to the killings as a genocide, a term recognised by much of the rest of the world but fiercely disputed by Turkey.
The European decision prompted a furious response from Mr Erdogan.
“Such decisions are nothing but expressions of enmity against Turkey by abusing Armenians,” he said while on a visit to Kazakhstan. “Come on, let’s leave history to historians.”
Earlier he had made an implicit threat to deport Armenian citizens, many of whom work in Turkey.
The Pope’s comments on Sunday, in which he also referred to the events as a genocide, have met an even more extreme response. One minister claimed the statement stemmed from Pope Francis’s Argentinian nationality and the country’s history of giving shelter to Nazis.
The Grand Mufti of Ankara threatened retaliation by saying Turkey could convert the former Hagia Sophia Basilica - the seat of the Orthodox church for a thousand years, until Constantinople was seized and incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1453 - into a mosque. It is currently a museum.
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Telling the truth is a hostile act.
Tuck Furkey.
To all you stinking infidel pigs,
If you call us murderers, we will kill you.
Signed,
The Religion of Peace
Turkey could have saved itself a lot of grief by just owning up to it 70 years ago and being done with the whole issue.
Now they can NEVER admit it!
Geez...genocide only counts when you kill more than five million people...
Anything under that number is merely a huge misunderstanding...
Absolutely. In fact, they could have owned up to it without owning up to it: it was those bad-old Ottomans.
And this would have fit right in with the Kemalist mindset.
This is a related topic:
Islamist Turkish President Erdogan Says A ‘Mastermind’ Is Plotting Against Turkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3279225/posts
Now, how is Pope Francis going to have any sway on that situation?
Would you like some bacon with that turkey?
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