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Pope Hopes for Better Armenia-Turkey Relations

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December 1, 2014
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Pope Francis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis says he hopes Turkey will open its border with Armenia. The Pope made the remark on Sunday during a 45-minute news conference on his flight to Rome after a three-day visit to Turkey, the Catholic News Service reports.

The Pope praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 2013 statement in which he offered “condolences” to the descendants of the victims of the “1915 mass killings,” failing to call the Armenian Genocide by name in what many Armenians around the world saw as a cynical and meaningless gesture.

The Pope voiced hope that other gestures over the coming centennial year of the Armenian Genocide would bring the two nations closer, and he specifically voiced hope that Turkey would open its border with Armenia.

The Pope also said he told Erdogan that “it would be beautiful if all Islamic leaders — whether they be political leaders, religious leaders, academic leaders — would say clearly that they condemn [terrorism], because that will help the majority of Islamic people to say, ‘that’s true,’” and show non-Muslims that Islam is a religion of peace.

“I sincerely believe that you cannot say that all Muslims are terrorists just as you cannot say that all Christians are fundamentalists; every religion has these little groups,” the Pope said.

While in Turkey, Pope Francis visited the Surp Prgich (Holy Savior) Armenian hospital in Istanbul to see Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafian.

“Before leaving for the airport to board his flight back to Rome at the end of his visit to Turkey, Pope Francis paid a visit to the Armenian Patriarch of Constaninople, Mesrob Mutafian, who is seriously ill at the San Salvatore Armenian hospital in Istanbul,” Vatican Radio reported.

The Pope urged for religious tolerance when speaking in Turkey during his three-day visit. He also called on Islamic state and religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremism.

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  1. ED says:
    8 years ago

    VATICAN CIT& Pope are busy justifying some past actions of old Europe and now the west. Therefor we Armenians better have no expectation from this VATICAN CITY and Pope alt all!

    VATICAN CITY sending Pope to criminal Turkey , whee millions of Christians being murder to make “peace” with this :Turkish Islam” , without annihilation of Christian folk in Ottoman Turkey, there wont be this Islamic Turkey of today .. Sorry , guys, BUT simply fuck this this dishonesty of VATICAN CITY and Pope .. All this actions taken by VATICAN CITY and pope in Turkey is stupid and insulting for the whole Christianity and special for us Armenians and Armenian nation!!

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  2. Ani says:
    8 years ago

    Unfortunately the Pope spoke in vain. In one ear, and out the other. I’m sure the Pope had already realized it but had to say it anyway.

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  3. dvo says:
    8 years ago

    That hope we lost a long time ago the only wat is tot recognize the genocide

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  4. GeorgeMardig says:
    8 years ago

    Genocide perpetrators never admit their guilt, Pol Pot of Cambodia never accepted his commiting Genocide, it is the world that condemns an act of Genocide, I can’t understand how Armenians expect from Turkey to acknowledge it, if criminals never accept their crime.

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  5. D Kara says:
    8 years ago

    May not be exactly what we were expecting, but he is still the best Pope the Armenians have seen in centuries. Let’s give the poor guy some credit!

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