From the Scotsman, “World leaders join to remember Holocaust”:
In Turkey, the foreign ministry said: “We respectfully commemorate the deaths of all people who died in the Holocaust. We hope all humanity will learn the necessary lessons of this horrifying period with no match in history, so that similar events will not be repeated.”
Turkish Sultan Beyazid II let Jews into the Ottoman Empire after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Turkey also aided Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
“The Jewish academics who took refuge in our country took positions at universities and made important contributions to the education of our children,” the statement said.
The Armenians weren’t quite so fortunate.
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