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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Erdogan condemns pope for Armenian genocide comment
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expresses anger over the pope’s use of the word genocide to describe the mass killings of Armenians in World War I, saying such talk was nonsense and the pontiff should not repeat such a mistake again.
“If politicians and religious leaders do the job of historians then we will not get to the truth and only end with nonsense,” Erdogan says in a speech in Ankara in his first reaction to the pope’s comments.
“Respected pope: I condemn this mistake and warn against making it again,” he says to applause from an audience of businessmen.
Turkey has vehemently rejected the use of the term genocide to describe the Ottoman era killings and is keeping to its line during the current 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.