Turkey will commemorate Armenian deaths-- but not genocide
April 22, 2015
Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says that his government will commemorate the mass deaths of Armenians at a 100th-anniversary observance on April 24. But he has refused to use the term “genocide” or to acknowledge Turkey’s responsibility for the killings.
“Reducing that happened to a single word and placing all the responsibility on Turkey is problematic,” Davutoglu said. But he said that the government wants to “share the pain” with the descendants of Armenians who lost their relatives in 1915.
The Turkish premier referred to the “deportations of 1915.” An estimated 1.5 Armenian people were killed in massacres and forced marches during the campaign.
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