“We apologize”: Turkish academics say ‘sorry’ to Armenian people over genocide
The latest “My Apologies” initiative of a group of Turkish intellectuals who decided to offer personal apologies to the Armenian people for the Genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire has elicited a wide international response.
A petition to which all who wish may join is uploaded on the website www.ozurdiliyoruz.com. During the first 24 hours of the website’s operation, more than 5,000 people signed upt, including more than 200 Turkish journalists, political scientists, historians, musicians, scholars. Nevertheless, the petition available in eight languages, including Armenian, does not mention the word ‘genocide’, but instead speaks about the “great catastrophe.” Reply |