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    TURKEY CRITICIZES ISRAEL WHILE DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    02.02.2010 17:03 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Hayat London-based Arabic newspaper slammed Turkey's
    police towards the Arab world.

    As Shahan Kandaharian, Editor-in-Chief of Beirut-based Aztag newspaper
    told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, Ankara was criticized for using
    double standards in relation to Arab world.

    "Turkey criticizes Israel while denying Armenian Genocide," the
    newspaper said.

    At the same time, Turkey is developing a unified strategy with Syria,
    Lebanon and Jordan. "Nevertheless, strategic partnership between
    Turkey and Israel continues," Shahan Kandaharian emphasized.

    The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
    destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
    and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
    deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
    lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
    reaching 1.5 million.

    The date of the onset of the genocide is conventionally held to be
    April 24, 1915, the day that Ottoman authorities arrested some 250
    Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

    Thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes
    and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of
    food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria.

    To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
    the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars
    and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also
    recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC,
    The Washington Post and The Associated Press.

    The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
    Genocide survivors.
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