In its report on the Saturday earthquake in southeastern Turkey, Reuters presented a brief overview of Van's history, touching 1915 incidents, Tert.am reported.
Referring deportations of Armenians in the World War One period as “massacre of Armenians”, Reuters recieved criticism of Turkish authorities.
According to the Turkish Milliyet, Ankara made a tough response to the agency, urging it to re-edit the report on the Van earthquake.
"If, instead of an earthquake, Van had seen political developments, we would have realized why the Reuters' editors choose that method of news reporting. But what happened in Van is a natural disaster. So what does Reuters' additional information have to do with the Kurdish population and the Armenian massacres?" said the paper.
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