Former ambassadors criticize apology over Armenian incidents as unbalanced, biased

More than 50 former Turkish ambassadors yesterday issued a statement criticizing an initiative to apologize for World War I-era killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottomans. The statement emphasized that an online apology issued by about 200 intellectuals failed to mention the death and suffering of Turks during 1914-15, which was not less than those of the Armenians, and so was unbalanced. The statement also mentioned attacks and assassinations by Armenian terrorist groups in the late 20th century which took 70 lives, including five ambassadors and four consul generals, and injured more than 570 people, saying that the Armenians should apologize for these murders.