  Turkish Professor ready to acknowledge Turks' guilt for Armenian GenocideApril 19, 2011 - 15:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Legal Professor Mithat Sancar delivered a statement at Ankara-hosted Hate Crimes international conference. ''1915 events in Turkey might be cited as one of the gravest demonstrations of hatred. April 24 must be announced as a mourning day in Turkey. Refusing to address the issue we're legalizing the ideology which, in the first place, led to massacres,'' the professor said, stressing that Turkish people feel guilty for the crime perpetrated. The lawyer of Agos Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor-in-chief Hrant Dink's family Fethiye Cetin was also present at the conference. ''Hrant Dink case was a life proof of racist mentality resulting in a legal verdict,'' she stressed.
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