Why does Turkey reject the word “genocide” when Armenians speak of the dark days in and after 1915? What is needed to normalize relations between the two nations?

Turkey insists this issue should be dealt with by historians and not by politicians, and has repeatedly proposed the formation of an international committee of historians whose conclusions it promises to accept..

Ankara believes the issue has become an international political bargaining chip to be beaten with.

Bora Bayraktar, Euronews:
“The 24th April 2015 will be a controversial centenary between Turkey and Armenia. Turkey accepts what happened in 1915 and talks about a common grief. But when it comes to describing it as “genocide”. Turkey does not accept this definition. Why?”

Turkey’s EU Minister Volkan Bozkir:
“Really, imprisoning the thousand-year-old-relationship between Turks and Armenians, good memories of history, in just one year, 1915, and turning everything around the word “genocide” is wrong.

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