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Friday, October 09, 2009

Turkey and Armenia seek peace

"Turkey and Armenia seek peace

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA (AP) – 1 hour ago

ISTANBUL — Enter the 'Hall of Armenian Issue with Documents' at the military museum in Istanbul, and you get a very different picture of what many historians view as the first genocide of the 20th century.

There, photographs show bodies of Ottoman Turks allegedly slaughtered and mutilated — the term 'martyred' appears in the captions — by Armenian gangs. The message: Turks were victims of fighting between the two neighbors, not the vast numbers of Armenians who were massacred or deported from Ottoman territory during World War I."

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