Quotation from Shimon Peres “It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide” — Apr. 10 2001
In the vein of all the declarations on the incomparable uniqueness of the genocide of the European Jews, and to flatter Turco-Israeli relations.
Author :
- Peres, Shimon (1923-2016) ( 4 quotations )
- The uniqueness of the genocide of European Jews ( 1 quotation )
" We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through, but not a genocide. "
Reported by Turkish Daily News, April 10 2001.
Yair Auron, The Banality of Denial
, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003.
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