Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali ªahin has urged Canada to change its policies recognizing Armenian genocide claims, requesting that the country’s Parliament not adopt more resolutions on the same issue in April."Our wish is not [to see] new problems this April,” ªahin said during a joint press conference with his visiting Canadian counterpart, Noel Kinsella.
The Canadian Parliament recognized the 1915 killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as genocide in 2004. The parliamentary recognition was later approved by the government as well, prompting severe reaction from Turkey. However, because the Canadian government later softened its comments on the issue, relations have improved between the two in recent years. (...)
Turkey urges Canada not to adopt new 'genocide' resolution
January 25, 2011 | 18:54
In his Jan 25 speech at the CE Parliamentary Assembly Jan, Turkish President Abdullah Gul denied the Armenian Genocide once again.
Responding to a delegate`s question about the Armenian Genocide, President Gul said he will not accept the term “genocide”, Zaman reports. He called on those recognizing the Armenian Genocide to set up a committee of historians on both sides. The committee will have access to the civil and military archives and let it work, the Turkish leader said.
According to him, Turkey regrets the sad events that took place in Turkey 100 years ago. At the same time the Turkish Government had to wage war on five fronts. Some citizens rebelled as they were being killed. People must be murdered for ethnic or religious reasons for the crime to be qualified as “genocide”. However, Armenians were members of higher courts, court presidents and even Turkish ambassadors to some regions, Gul said. All the Armenian churches are open in Istanbul. It is unacceptable to call the events genocide, the Turkish leader said.
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