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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Turkey criticises Obama comments

Barack Obama's words on the day marking the killing of Armenians by Turks in World War I were "unacceptable", Turkey's foreign ministry has said.Though Mr Obama did not use "genocide", as he did during his election campaign, Ankara said he failed to honour those Turks killed by Armenians at the time."Everyone's pain must be shared," President Abdullah Gul of Turkey said.President Obama described the deaths of the Armenians as "one of the great atrocities of the 20th Century".He appealed for Turks and Armenians to "address the facts of the past as a part of their efforts to move forward".The two countries agreed this week on a roadmap for normalising relations.

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