TURKEY SLAMS DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS FOR ARMENIA GENOCIDE REMARKS
Kathimerini
Jan 29 2008
Greece
ANKARA (AP) – Turkey has criticized US Democratic presidential
hopefuls for backing Armenian views that a century-old mass killings
of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks constituted a genocide. The Turkish
Foreign Ministry said in a statement over the weekend that remarks
by Democratic presidential candidates "for the sake of an internal
party struggle, offends the Turkish nation." The statement did not
name specific candidates.