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14:30, April 21, 2015

Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s Prime Minister, released a statement today that Turkey “remembers with respect the innocent Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives and offers its deep condolences to their descendants.”

Nevertheless, the Turkish Prime Minister qualified what took place in 1915 as “relocation” and argued that it was morally and legally problematic to place the entire blame, through generalizations, on the Turkish nation.

TheTurkish Prime Minister, as in the past, said that others, Turkish and Muslim Ottomans, suffered as well and that it would be wrong to discriminate between the pains suffered.

Davutoğlu, in a veiled retort to Armenian lobbying efforts to get Turkey to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide, said that “recent years have shown that nothing can be achieved by trying to impose conflicting narratives upon one another.”  Read more... (209 words)

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