Turkey Irate with Canada

Recent commemorations of the killings have exacerbated plummeting relations between Canada and Turkey.

Published May 20, 2009

The question of whether to define the killings in 1915 of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a genocide is seen as an incredibly heated and explosive issue. Relations between Armenia and Turkey remain tempestuous and, worldwide, the diasporas of both heritages have become fixated on defining its historical context.

Five years ago, Canada's Parliament recognized the killings as a...

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