TURKEY SUMMONS US AMBASSADOR OVER OBAMA SPEECH ON ARMENIA
Southeast European Times
April 28 2009
ANKARA, Turkey — The foreign ministry has summoned US Ambassador to
Ankara James Jeffrey over last week’s speech by US President Barack
Obama, marking the Armenian Remembrance Day of 1915, media reported
on Monday (April 27th). In his speech last Friday, Obama did not use
the word "genocide" to describe the killings of 1.5 million Armenian
civilians by Ottoman Turks in 1915-1917. Instead, he branded the
events as "one of the great atrocities of the 20th century". That
stirred angry reactions from Turkey’s political leaders. President
Abdullah Gul told reporters that hundreds of thousands of Turks also
lost their lives in the 1915 events. (Anadolu news agency, Hurriyet,
Zaman – 27/04/09)