Many state and government authorities, including the mayor, district governor, chief prosecutor, and garrison commander of the town, as well as many students and local people, attended the play. An actor said that he has been playing the role of Ohannes, the Armenian battalion commander in the play, for about 30 years.
Just so,What did the textbooks say about the Armenians?
“The textbooks characterize Armenians as people who are incited by foreigners, who aim to break apart the state and the country and who murdered Turks and Muslims,” Akçam wrote.
Also know,What did people in Turkey call the Armenians?
Kurds, or Kurds who request national rights, are “accused” of being Armenian. Many people in Turkey, including military personnel, openly refer to Kurds or Kurdish activists as “Armenians,” “dirty Armenians,” “Armenian bastards,” “Armenian sperm,” or “Armenian semen/seed.”
In respect to this,Why was Japan’s apology to China so bad?
The apology by Murayama was viewed as inadequate in China but caused widespread fury in Japan.
What was the population of the Armenians before the genocide?
Two days later I returned to this place and saw the charred bodies of thousands of human beings,” he wrote. Though it is hard to confirm an exact figure, the Encyclopedia Britannica estimated there were around 1,750,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire prior to 1915. Today, the population of Armenians in Turkey is thought to be around 70,000.