Redefined “Diaspora=?UTF-8?B?4oCdIA==?=or“Just Memory=?UTF-8?B?4oCdIA==?=Strategy: Turkey=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s new perspective on the Armenian Genocide

Since early this year the Turkish foreign ministry has been trying to adopt a new political course Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu has called "strategy of 'just memory'".

Turkish Today's Zaman writes that Davutoglu "wants to contextualize what happened in 1915 in the broader framework of a humanitarian disaster caused by a crumbling Ottoman Empire".

"In addition to Armenian sufferings, he wants to refer to the Turkish losses in the Balkans and Caucuses, millions of Muslims killed or uprooted from their lands before and during World War I, the losses at Gallipoli and Sarıkamış as "our shared tragedy," writes journalist Omer Taspinar.  Read more... (775 words)

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