History of the Ottoman Empire

His reaction was at least provocative as one day before the 107th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey

On this date in 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals – Christians, for the most part – were forcibly deported from the Turkish capital of Constantinople. The number soon escalated into the thousands, and most were eventually murdered.

For more than a century, Turkey has denied any role in organizing the killing of Armenians in what historians have long accepted as a genocide that started in 1915, as World War I spread across continents. The Turkish narrative of denial has hinged on the argument that the original documents from postwar military tribunals that convicted the genocide’s planners were nowhere to be found.

Turkish Foreign Ministry has urged the U.S. administration to adopt an objective and constructive approach in evaluating historical realities on the basis of a memory after U.S. President Barack Obama's "Meds Yeghern" remarks on the killings of Armenians in 1915.

U.S. President Barack Obama avoided using the word "genocide" in his remarks to commemorate the killings of Armenians in 1915, describing it as "Meds Yeghern," an Armenian term meaning "great calamity." 

Obama has chosen to opt for this wording in all his commemorative statements on April 24 since he came into office.

Three Bulgarian municipalities will have their access to cross-border EU funding cut as Turkey has banned any partnership with them, private bTV station reported.

Fulfilling expectations, U.S. President Barack Obama has refrained from using the word ?genocide? in a statement to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, while praising two figures who did it in the past.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has warned the condemnation of the mass killings of Anatolian Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces 100 years ago as ?genocide? by Austrian lawmakers would inevitably have negative impacts on the bilateral relations between the two countries, diplomatic sources told Hürriyet Daily News.

Main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has announced his party?s readiness to engage in a joint effort with other parties to issue a joint statement against the European Parliament?s recognition of the 1915 massacre of Ottoman Armenians as genocide.

The good news came through a column. Hürriyet columnist Fatih Çekirge opened his piece, ?How Turkey?s crisis with the Christian world was averted,? on March 30, datelined ?The Vatican,? by relieving everyone: ?Let?s first break the news. Turkey and the Christian world have gone through a serious crisis over Apr. 24 [the anniversary of the Armenian genocide].