ITS TIME THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT OWES UP TO THEIR DARK PAST

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Haberturk channel’s TV program guest, Turkish actress Pelin Batu characterized the 1915 events as Genocide. Later in the program, the actress acknowledged to being threatened because of her earlier statements on the Armenian Genocide. “I do not advocate either Armenians or Turks. I only call on people to tell the truth about past events,” Pelin Batu said, criticizing the intolerance of Turkish people and referring to recent statement by Turkish Prime Minister on the eviction of 100 000 Armenians from the country, habervitrini.com reported. 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 majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.