Turkey admits to "some" of the killings, but continues to refuse the label that is synonyms with Armenian's. If you say "Armenian" the next word that comes to mind is "Genocide". But Turkey says there were 500,000 muslims killed also during WWI, so it was understandable that 1.5 Million Armenian civilians were slaughtered?
Denial does not change what happened, but Turkey "rejects" President Trump's interpretation of the Armenian Genocide.
Scratch head? OH, we cannot use the word "genocide".
The links in the article go to Turkey's rebuttal and to President Trump's statement.
Here is President Trumps official statement from last year.
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Armenian Remembrance Day 2017
We welcome the efforts of Turks and Armenians to acknowledge and reckon with painful history, which is a critical step toward building a foundation for a more just and tolerant future.
Acknowledge? Not yet.
In other words it didn’t happen.
A few years back I watched a film called “Ararat” which was about this genocide. Very dark and disturbing.
“Genocide” refers to the systematic extermination of a group. The Turks did not suffer a genocide, but the Armenians, whose population in Turkey dropped by 98%, mostly due to the killings, evidently did.
Why is today’s Turkey so sensitive to these past atrocities?
Here is President Trump’s statement from this year:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-armenian-remembrance-day-2018/
Once again, he did not use the word “genocide”!!!! Nevertheless, his statement was “too strong” for the muslim Turk!!!!
From the days of the false “prophet” Muhammad to the present day, islam has ALWAYS been characterized by mass murder and genocide!!!!
We need a strong ban on muslim immigration, and must also outlaw the terrorist muslim Brotherhood and close all its institutions and organizations!!! That will put an end to all those terrorist-supporting mosques in our major cities, and will result in muslims deporting themselves from the USA!!!!
And we must recognize the Turkish muslim genocide of Christian Armenians for what it was!!!!
So if the Nazis were still in power dip!omacy would require us to tiptoe around that Jewish thing that might or might not have happened?
Tuck Furkey!
jeez that is bizarre — conflating 2 different incidents, a war with a massacre...
its like saying
‘hey you are fat. no, no im not because i have a cat’
So what?