Events held to remember the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago have caused a rift between Turkey and Europe. Ankara rejects that the killings were genocide, reports Thomas Seibert from Istanbul. In recent weeks, Turkey has had to accept numerous decisions by important leaders in Europe to ignore Ankara’s demands to leave assessments of the 1915-1917 deportations of Armenians to the historians. First, Pope Francis described the mass murders as “genocide” – a term that Ankara has steadfastly rejected. […]
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