An ethnic Armenian senior adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his resignation on Thursday just days after describing the First World War-era massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
“If accepting that what happened in Bosnia and Africa were genocides, it is impossible not to call what happened to Armenians in 1915 genocide too,” Etyen Mahcupyan said in an interview with Karar.com published this week.
Mahcupyan, who became last year the first-ever member of Turkey’s Armenian community to hold such a post, effectively defended Pope Francis for calling the 1915 mass killings a genocide during a Sunday Mass. The Vatican has thus "thrown off a 100-year-old psychological burden," he said.
Armenian News
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