TURKISH ANGER AS POPE TALKS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The Tablet , UK
June 10 2013
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has expressed its “disappointment”
at Pope Francis for using the word “genocide” to describe the mass
killings of Armenians during the First World War.
Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from
Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World
War I as “the first genocide of the twentieth century”.
Pope Francis used the term at a meeting with a delegation led by
Nerses Bedros XIX, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, on 3 June –
the first time he has used the term since being elected Pope.
Today the Armenian News Agency Armenpress reported that at the official
opening ceremony of the Armenian embassy in the Vatican on Friday
the Pope also said that he wanted to hold a religious ceremony in
the Armenian capital, Yerevan, during the 2015 ceremony to mark the
centenary of the genocide.
From: Baghdasarian
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