Irish Times
A Turkish journalist asked Mrs McAleese about the continuing controversy surrounding the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915. Turkey recently recalled its ambassador to Washington following a US congressional committee vote describing the massacres as genocide.The President replied that Ireland had no official position on the matter. “Of all people, the Irish understand very well the fracturing of historic memory and how people take very, very different views of events that occur in history,” Mrs McAleese said.
“I think there is probably no place more qualified to stay out of an argument than Ireland.”
Drawing on the experience of the Northern Ireland peace process, Mrs McAleese spoke of the importance of healing.
“We can understand the dreadful sense of loss that people endured, and we also understand in a very special way how important it is that memory is given a chance to heal,” she said. “We would certainly be very strongly supportive of all efforts in today’s world to heal memory and to try to achieve friendship in this generation – I think that is true both of the issue in relation to Armenia and in relation to the Kurds.”
There are different views, and then there are facts. Stop kissing ass, Mary.
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