BBC News drops apostrophes around Genocide
BBC News has finally stopped using 'Genocide' instead of Genocide when referring to the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when more than a million Armenians were massacred by the government of the Ottoman empire in the first genocide of the 20th century. The decision seems to follow a Swiss court's decision that a Turkish nationalist politician was guilty of racism by denying the historical fact of the Genocide.
Additionally, following a complaint by the Armenian Genocide Trust of Great Britain, the following sentence is included in the news article which was missing from previous BBC reporting on the issue:
"More than a dozen countries, various international bodies and many Western historians agree that it was genocide."
Previously used wording suggested that it is only Armenians who consider the Great Calamity of 1915 a Genocide. We welcome BBC's increasingly accurate and objective reporting on this matter and hope this will continue with coverage on April 24th, the annual commemoration day of the Armenian Genocide.
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