'Islamist' Turkey says deeply disappointed by pope's statements on Armenian Genocide. (Bugun).
Turkey told the Vatican's ambassador on Sunday it was "deeply sorry and disappointed" that Pope Francis had called the 1915 mass killings in Armenia a genocide, an official said, adding the pope's comments had caused a "problem of trust". Turkey says deeply disappointed by pope's comments on Armenian killings
The pope made the comments earlier in the day during a Mass marking the 100th anniversary of the killings.
Muslim Turkey accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when Armenia was part of the empire ruled from Istanbul, but denies hundreds of thousands were killed and that this amounted to genocide. Hmmmm......Don't be surprised if there's sin the near future an
@miskelayla @etabori Anyway after the papal visit to #Turkey : "It is not possible to have interfaith dialogue" http://t.co/uv6372laUB
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) April 12, 2015
Related:
Dutch Parliament Recognizes Assyrian, Greek and Armenian Genocide by the Ottomans.
.@06JAnk They are invited to read original texts http://t.co/13wrcNOgqL (today) + http://t.co/PWPqRoqxdD (2001) ->nothing to do with #racism
— Alexander Pytlik (@padrealex) April 12, 2015
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