In the last year, lost the support of the outside world that Turkey’s PM Erdogan, now he is doing for genocide against the Armenians call for peace.

Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has highlighted the “shared pain” endured during the 1915 events in a historic statement April 23 on the Armenian issue, expressing condolences on behalf of the Turkish state to the grandchildren of Armenians who lost their lives “in the context of the early twentieth century.”

In a first-of-its-kind statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office, Erdoğan said April 24 carries “particular significance for our Armenian citizens and for all Armenians around the world.”

Arguing that all ethnicities in the late years of the Ottoman Empire lived a hard time full of pains, PM Erdoğan called for a just, humane and conscientious standing to commemorate all pains experienced in that era.

“The incidents of the World War I. are our shared pain. To evaluate this painful period of history through a perspective of just memory is a humane and scholarly responsibility.”

Erdoğan’s statement also stressed the importance of freedom of expression and respect of plurality regarding history.

“In Turkey, expressing different opinions and thoughts freely on the events of 1915 is the requirement of a pluralistic perspective as well as of a culture of democracy and modernity,” the statement said.

“It is with this hope and belief that we wish that the Armenians who lost their lives in the context of the early twentieth century rest in peace, and we convey our condolences to their grandchildren,” it said.

The statement has been issued in eight languages, including Eastern and Western Armenian.

Armenians will mark this year the 99th anniversary of the tragedy on April 24, the date on which the mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Armenians started when a telegram by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha ordered provincial governors and commanders – especially in the eastern regions to which the Tsarist Russian army was advancing – to forcibly deport the Armenian population.

Armenians describe the events as “genocide” and demand its recognition by Ankara. Turkey claims the killings should be understood in the context of World War I.

A resolution that recognizes the killings of Ottoman Armenians as a genocide, which passed at the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee on April 10 by bipartisan vote, failed to reach the floor earlier this month.

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