It was clever, crafty - artful, even - but it was not the truth. For
in the end, Barack Obama dishonoured his promise to his
American-Armenian voters to call the deliberate mass murder of 1.5
million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide. How grateful
today's Turkish generals must be.
Two hundred Turkish intellectuals last month launched an Internet signature campaign for an apology to Armenians for the 1915 massacres. "My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Armenians were subjected to in 1915," the brief statement reads. "I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers and sisters. I apologize to them."
