In 1999 , he befriended the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink who was running the Armenian-language periodical Agos . After Dink was assassinated on 19 January 2007 , Cengiz Aktar , along with other Turkish scholars , decided to launch a petition calling for an apology of the Turks towards the Armenians . Aktar believes that Turkish public must take the responsibility of being further informed about the Armenian Genocide . The petition read : My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915 . I reject this injustice and for my share , I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers and sisters . I apologize to them . The campaign was named the I Apologize campaign and was signed by over 32,000 people
Armenian Genocide
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Cengiz Aktar