Anti-Armenian sentiment

At the meeting of his cabinet, he described the situation as explosive.
In the past week, the military-political situation in our region has worsened. That's because Azerbaijan has been massing troops along the Nagorno-Karabakh separation line and the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in recent days.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a message on April 24 to the patriarch of the Armenians of Turkey, Sahak Mashalyan, and commemorated the Armenians died during the First World War.

"I commemorate the Ottoman Armenians we lost in the war. Let's build the future instead of magnifying the suffering," Erdoğan said in his message.

Ambassador of Armenia to Romania Sergey Minasyan states in an interview granted to AGERPRES that, in his opinion, the Armenian community in Romania enjoys a "privileged position" and is integrated within the society, the Romanian people's tolerance can set "a good example for many other countries."

Armenians who were leaving the Narlı Kapı Church in Constantinople on Sunday were stoned by a group of children who chanted “Death to you,” the artigerçek news website reported on Monday.

'In the Ruins: The 1909 Massacres of Armenians in Adana' by Zabel Yessayan (AIWA, $20, 262 pages)

The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was an Armenian terrorist organization that operated from 1975 until the early 1990s. It conducted a series of assassinations against Turks throughout the 1970 and 1980s, killing 46 and injuring 299 people. Some 42 of the assassinated were Turkish diplomats.

?Prime Minister Erdo?an?s statement of condolence to the Armenians was a milestone in Turkey?s history.?

This was the first sentence of my column in daily Hürriyet on April 26 last year.

The stories of Armenians who survived the mass killings of the late Ottoman era have been gathered in a book titled "100 years… Real Stories."