The Armenian National Committee of America, or ANCA, the largest U.S. Armenian group, praised the campaign by a group of intellectuals in Turkey to collectively apologizing for the 1915 incidents in the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday.
"The efforts of those courageous parliamentarians and historians in Turkey who have placed the Armenian genocide center-stage must be commended," said the ANCA communications director, Elizabeth Chouldjian, according to an ANCA statement.
Armenian community wants formal recognition
"By the same token, the campaign by Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan and other Turkish leaders to quash honest discussion of the murder of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915-1923 must not be rewarded. Silence by the international community will be misinterpreted by Turkey
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