A statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry released late on Feb. 3 referred to a statement that was delivered earlier on Feb. 3 by the Vatican Press Office. In the statement, the Vatican appreciated Turkey’s 2005 proposal to Armenia to establish a joint historical commission to investigate the 1915 killings of Anatolian Armenians during the Ottoman era while also denouncing violence in reference to the 1977 killing of Turkish Ambassador to the Vatican Taha Carım, who was assassinated by members of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
“Within this framework, a decision has been made to return our Vatican ambassador, Mehmet Paçacı, who has been in the headquarters for consultations since a mass held in Saint Peter’s Basilica on April 12, 2015, to his office,” said the statement, which came in the form of an answer to a journalist’s question concerning the Vatican Press Office’s statement.
Turkey says it shares the pain of Armenians over the events but has vehemently rejected the use of the term genocide, contending that hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians were killed on both sides in a wartime tragedy.
Pope Francis sparked a diplomatic row in April 2015, calling the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians 100 years ago “the first genocide of the 20th century.”...
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