TURKEY SUMMONS VATICAN ENVOY OVER POPE’S ‘GENOCIDE’ REMARKS: TV
Ahram Online, Egypt
April 12 2015
Turkey on Sunday summoned the Vatican envoy to Ankara to request
an explanation over Pope Francis’s use of the word “genocide” to
describe the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World
War I, television reports said.
The envoy had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Ankara, the
NTV and CNN-Turk channels said.
There were no further details but according to Turkish media reports
an official statement is to be released by the foreign ministry later
in the day.
Quoting a statement signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian
patriarch in 2001, the pope described the killings of Armenians from
1915 as “the first genocide of the 20th century”.
Turkey has always vehemently rejected the use of the word “genocide”
to describe the killings and has shown no sign of making any major
concessions as the 100th anniversary of the tragedy falls.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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