But in Ankara he said he will set his personal views aside, and let the Turks and Armenians settle the matter themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

During the flotilla raid eight of those killed were Turks and one was a Turkish-American.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19