article_snippet.sent: The 1915 forced deportations and massacres were not taught in Turkey's schools.
article_snippet.sent: Armenia and the Armenian diaspora have been doing exactly that and demanding that the "Great Catastrophe" be recognized as genocide by Turkey and the world.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian President Serzh Sargysan said earlier this year that "impunity paved a path to Holocaust and genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur.
article_snippet.sent: The Republic of Turkey has always rejected the term "genocide.
article_snippet.sent: Rather, the Ottoman Empire's Committee of Union and Progress believed Armenian nationalists to be collaborating with the Russian army, which was at war with the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: To prevent this alliance and stop violence against civilians, the Ottoman Empire's Committee of Union and Progress undertook a policy of "relocation" to move Armenian populations residing in or near the war zone to southern provinces.
article_snippet.sent: Turkey argues that wartime conditions, famine and internal conflicts led to the death of millions of Ottomans, including Armenian subjects.
article_snippet.sent: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered Turkey's condolences last year to the descendants of the Armenians who lost the descendants of the Armenians who lost their lives lives.
article_snippet.sent: But Pope Francis' use of the word "genocide" and the European Parliament's resolution last week angered Turkish leaders.
article_snippet.sent: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the European Parliament's resolution "selective and one-sided," claiming it repeated "anti-Turkish clichés.
article_snippet.sent: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deemed it a "hostile campaign against Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: But if it does not face genocide, then it does not matter.
article_snippet.sent: But for many, the emotional journey remains unfulfilled as long as Turkey denies the cause of others pain.
highlights_snippet.sent: Fethiye Cetin, others want Turkey to recognize the killings as a genocide; Turkey has refused .
  