2015年4月24日 星期五

Armenia: 'Genocide' as a word 'exactly shows the truth'; German History and the Armenian Genocide ; a diplomatic sore point for Turkey and Armenia;Yerevan, Armenia


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紀念亞美尼亞大屠殺100週年,亞美尼亞24日在首都葉里凡(Yerevan)舉...
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One hundred years ago, Pope Benedict XV wrote to Mehmed V, the Sultan of the Ottoman empire, saying that he could hear “the echo of the groans of an entire people…subjected to unspeakable sufferings”. When the two leaders’ modern-day counterparts met last November at the Turkish presidential palace outside Ankara, those echoes were still audible. According to a new book by Franca Giansoldati, the Vatican-watcher of Il Messaggero, an Italian daily, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, “begged” Pope Francis to refrain from openly characterising the Ottoman empire’s slaughter of Armenians in 1915 as genocide. The pope respected his host’s wishes then. But on April 12th he abandoned tact and referred to the killings as “the first genocide of the 20th century”. The forthrightness provoked a strong reaction http://econ.st/1Ok8DBg

On April 24th 1915, Ottoman officials rounded up scores of Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul, most of whom were later murdered. What followed is still bitterly contested. According to the official Turkish version, perhaps 500,000 Armenians died. But many scholars say that 1m-1.5m Armenians died. Members of the Armenian diaspora want the events recognised as genocide. The Economist explains what counts as a genocide http://econ.st/1PtyBiQ







What’s in a word? Armenia’s Ambassador to the UK tells Christiane Amanpour why he believes it’s so important we say “genocide” to describe what started 100 years ago today.


"The way forward goes through truth," Armenian Ambassador to the UK...
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Turkey, the successor to the Ottoman Empire, refuses to call it a genocide.



It's an event that remains a diplomatic sore point for Turkey and Armenia
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Yerevan is the economic and cultural centre of Armenia

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