Persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Turkey on Feb. 25 slammed a decision by the Dutch House of Representatives to recognize the 1915 events as "genocide" against Armenians.  

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said the decision and calling on the government to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide is a null attempt to rewrite history with political motives.

Athens has accused Ankara of trying to "fabricate history" after the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement denouncing comments by the Greek political class on the anniversary of the Pontic Genocide, the massacre of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greek-Turkish war.

The burning of a Turkey national flag by a small group of protesters during events at Syntagma Square in central Athens on Tuesday to mark the 101st anniversary of the Pontic Genocide has drawn a condemnation by the Greek Foreign Ministry.

U.S. President Donald Trump's statement on the 1915 events is "void of objectivity," Turkey's ambassador to Washington said on April 24. 

Serdar Kılıç said the U.S. president's statement is "based on a subjective narrative which Armenians try to turn into a dogma."

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an annual commemoration of the 1915 events on April 24, again using the Armenian term "Meds Yeghern" to describe the tragedy.

The deaths that occurred during World War I are the common pain of all, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said, referring to the deaths of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 in a statement, released on the anniversary of April 24, which Armenians mark as a day of commemoration of what they call the "Armenian Genocide."

Greece's Alternate Forein Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis has shared tribute to the victims of the Armenian genocide over a century ago.

"Today we commemorate the 105th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the human and historic tragedy that we must never forget," Varvitsiotis tweeted.

Today is the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

On April 20, 1876, Bulgaria marks 144 years since the April Uprising broke out in Koprivshtitsa, thanks to which Bulgaria appeared on the map of Europe.

Turkey condemned the Syrian regime parliament over a resolution recognizing the 1915 incidents in Ottoman era as so-called "genocide".

"Syrian Regime Parliament's resolution today (Feb. 13) recognizing the incidents of 1915 as so-called genocide provides a grim example in itself," a written statement by Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said.