"Ottawa to soothe Turks angry over 'genocide' tag
BRIAN LAGHI
OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
The federal government has moved to mend fences with Turkey by qualifying its support for a controversial declaration that the Turks perpetrated a genocide against Armenians during the First World War.
The move comes just months after Turkey agreed to take in thousands of Canadians stranded in strife-torn Lebanon and after the Turks protested diplomatically by temporarily removing their ambassador and then pulling out of air exercises taking place in Alberta earlier this summer."
More:globeandmail.com: Ottawa to soothe Turks angry over 'genocide' tag
