in 2009, two hundred Turkish intellectuals bravely launched the “I Apologize” campaign online, which quickly gathered tens of thousands of signatures to the proclamation “My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Armenians were subjected to in 1915.” The Turkish government denounced the campaign, but the movement set the stage for the largest gesture, two years after that Montebello commemoration ceremony. In 2014, just before the ninety-ninth anniversary of the killings, the then Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoghan,
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