RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY POPE JOHN II IS CAUSED BY HIS OLD AGE ?

13.11.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The joint communique of the heads of the Armenian Apostolic Church and Catholic Church of Rome, where Vatican actually recognized the fact of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, have become the reason for discontent in Turkey.
A liberal “Milliyet” Turkish daily states in the article entitled “Pope Becomes Senile” that “this mistake by Pope was connected with his old age.”
On November 10 the visiting Vatican Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and Pope John II signed a communique that says: “The 20th century was marked by extreme violence. The Armenian genocide, which began the century, was a prologue to horrors that would follow. –0–