1.0 link 151060 <![CDATA[Turkish Academics To Apologize For Armenian Genocide]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/15/turkish-academics-to-apol_n_151060.html Around 200 Turkish intellectuals and academics are to apologise on the internet today for the ethnic cleansing of Armenians during the First World War, in the most public sign yet that Turkey's most sensitive taboo is slowly melting away.

"My conscience does not accept the denial of the great catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915," the text prepared by the group reads. "I reject this injustice and ... empathise with the feelings and pain of my Armenian...

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