Kurdish recognition of the Armenian genocide

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a resolution recognizing the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, news agencies said. The resolution was approved by a large majority - 405 in favour and 11 against

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has recognized on the behalf of the Belgian government the killing of Ottoman Armenians in eastern Anatolia from 1915 as ?genocide,? Belgian media reported on June 18.

By the weekend, we will have left the big day behind; the 100th anniversary of the World War I killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottomans will have been marked. 

European Parliament vote that urged Turkey to use the centenary of the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians as an opportunity to ?recognize the Armenian genocide? showcases the enmity against Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said April 16.

?Such decisions are nothing but an expression of enmity against Turkey by abusing Armenians,? he said in the Kazakh capital of Astana. 

Turkey has no reason to be defensive in the face of any motion to recognize the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians in World War I as ?genocide,? as it will never accept such ?a crime and sin,? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

Greek Cyprus has made it a crime to deny the Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenian Turks a century ago, a move likely to rile its old rival Turkey as peace talks on the ethnically-split island remain stalled.

Turkey still has a Kurdish issue, Finance Minister Mehmet ?im?ek said on April 1, apparently contradicting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s recent claim that Turkey no longer has a Kurdish problem, only a terrorism problem.

U.S. congressmen working on a resolution to recognize the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as genocide have missed the deadline to submit the motion, as preparations by Armenian lobbies in Washington for the 100th anniversary are reportedly proceeding more slowly than intended.

Kurdish leader Ahmet Türk fears an emotional break, a disengagement of the Kurdish youth. He issued a strong warning the other day: