I Apologize " ( " Özür Diliyorum " ) is an online campaign launched in December 2008 in Turkey by numerous journalists , politicians , and professors , calling for a collective apology for the Armenian Genocide , which I Apologize calls " the Great Catastrophe that Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915 . " The campaign was launched by Prof. Ahmet Insel , politician Baskin Oran , Dr. Cengiz Aktar , and journalist Ali Bayramoğlu . The campaign emphasizes regret on behalf of Turkey that Armenian requests for recognition of the 1915 genocide has been actively suppressed within Turkey . The campaign was signed by 5,000 people within the first 24 hours , and had collected over 30,000 signatories by January 2009 . The campaign created widespread outrage in Turkish society
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
I Apologize campaign