Turkey persistently doesn’t acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, writes the Serbian newspaper E-novine.

“Etyen Mahçupyan, the first Armenian community representative in Turkey, who became the advisor to Turkey’s PM, left his office after stating that the murders of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were a genocide. Mahçupyan, appointed as advisor to Turkey’s PM Ahmet Davutoglu last year, infuriated many members of the ruling Justice and Development Party.

“If we term the events occurred in Bosnia and Africa as genocide, it’s impossible to say that what happened to Armenians is not a genocide,” Mahçupyan said in one of his interviews. The European Parliament declared the killing of Armenians during WWI as genocide – a term that Pope Francis I used and which enraged Ankara, though the MEPs welcomed the step of Rome’s Catholic Church leader,” the newspaper writes.