Thursday, April 28, 2011

Turkey Denounces Obama’s Remarks on 1915 Events

"Turkey Denounces Obama’s Remarks on 1915 Events

In his annual remarks on Saturday, to mark the ‘Armenian Remembrance Day,’ the U.S. President Barack Obama called the incidents of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire a 'great disaster' or 'Meds Yeghern' in Armenian, but once again he did not classify the WWI killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as “genocide,” greatly angering many American-Armenians. Yet Turkey still criticized his statement."

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