We Do Not Need To Apologize, Erdogan Says

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WE DO NOT NEED TO APOLOGIZE, ERDOGAN SAYS

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.12.2008 15:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is unacceptable to affirm support to the recent
internet campaign launched to issue a public apology to Armenians,
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

Over 10 thousand people have already signed the public apology for
Armenian Genocide launched by a group of Turkish academics, writers
and journalists.

"I neither accept nor support this campaign. We did not commit a
crime, therefore we do not need to apologize," Erdogan said, adding
the issue is still being discussed by historians.

He said such initiatives only reverse the positive steps taken by
Turkey, Hurriyet reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS