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"I Apologize" (Özür Diliyorum) is an online campaign launched in December 2008 in Turkey by numerous journalists, politicians, and professors, calling for a collective apology for the Armenian genocide, which the campaign calls "the Great Catastrophe that Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915." The campaign was launched by Prof.^[1]

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Adalet Ağaoğlu

Adalet Ağaoğlu (née Sümer; 23 October 1929 – 14 July 2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, considered one of the foremost novelists of 20th-century Turkish literature.

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Akın Birdal

Akın Birdal (born 2 January 1948, Niğde, Niğde Province, Turkey) is a Turkish human rights activist and politician.

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Ali Bayramoğlu

Ali Bayramoğlu (born 1956 in Istanbul, Turkey), is a Turkish writer and political commentator.

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Anti-Germans (political current)

Anti-German (Antideutsch) is the generic name applied to a variety of theoretical and political tendencies within the left mainly in Germany and Austria.

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Armenian genocide

The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Armenian genocide denial

Armenian genocide denial is the claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of evidence and affirmed by the vast majority of scholars. I Apologize campaign and Armenian genocide denial are politics of Turkey.

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Armenian genocide recognition

Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, both during and after the First World War, constituted genocide. I Apologize campaign and Armenian genocide recognition are Armenian genocide commemoration.

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Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. I Apologize campaign and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day are Armenian genocide commemoration.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Armenian population mostly belonged to either the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Catholic Church.

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Article 301 (Turkish Penal Code)

Article 301 is a lèse-majesté law of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish nation, Turkish government institutions, or Turkish national heroes such as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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Aslı Erdoğan

Aslı Erdoğan (born 8 March 1967) is a prize-winning Turkish writer, author, human rights activist, and columnist for Özgür Gündem and formerly for Radikal, ex political prisoner, particle physicist.

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Ayhan Bilgen

Ayhan Bilgen (born 28 January 1971, Sarıkamış, Kars Province) is a journalist, politician and former mayor of Kars from the Peoples' Democratic Party.

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Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu (born 2 November 1965) is a Turkish medical doctor (pulmonologist), human rights activist and an MP (Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly - TBMM) for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

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Şerafettin Elçi

Şerafettin Elçi (14 March 1938 – 25 December 2012) was a Kurdish lawyer, politician, government minister and statesman in Turkey.

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Şişli

Şişli is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

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Baskın Oran

Baskın Oran (born 26 July 1945 in Izmir) is a Turkish academic, politician and human rights activist.

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Bengi Yıldız

Bengi Yildiz (born 15 November 1965 in Kozluk, Batman Province, Turkey) was a Member of Parliament of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) for Batman, Turkey.

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Cem Özdemir

Cem Özdemir (born 21 December 1965) is a German politician who currently serves as Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture since 2021.

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Cengiz Aktar

Cengiz Aktar (born 1955) is a Turkish political scientist, essayist and columnist.

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Coşkun Aral

Coşkun Aral (born May 1, 1956) is a Turkish war correspondent, photo journalist, television journalist and documentary film producer.

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Devlet Bahçeli

Devlet Bahçeli (born 1 January 1948) is a Turkish politician, economist, former deputy prime minister, and current chairman of the far-right, ultranationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

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Ece Temelkuran

Ece Temelkuran (born 22 July 1973, in Izmir, ecetemelkuran.net) is a Turkish journalist and author.

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Enis Batur

Ahmet Enis Batur (born 28 June 1952, Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish poet, essayist, novelist, and editor.

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Eren Keskin

Eren Keskin (born April 24, 1959 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist in Turkey.

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Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Ertuğrul Kürkçü (born 5 May 1948) is a Turkish politician, socialist activist and the current Honorary President of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as of 22 June 2014 and Honorary Associate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as of 8 October 2018.

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Esra Mungan

Esra Mungan is a Turkish academic and associate professor of psychology at Boğaziçi University who was arrested in 2016 for signing the Academics for Peace petition "We won’t be a party to this crime!" demanding a peaceful solution to the conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in South-East Turkey.

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Fatma Müge Göçek

Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan.

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Ferhat Tunç

Ferhat Tunç Yoslun (born 14 March 1964) is a singer of Kurdish descent.

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Feridun Yazar

Feridun Yazar (1944 in Urfa - 12 June 2016) was the president of the political party HEP from 1991 to 1992.

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Fethiye Çetin

Fethiye Çetin (born 4 May 1950 in Maden, Elazığ Province) is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist of Armenian origin.

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Filiz Kerestecioğlu

Filiz Kerestecioğlu Demir (born 31 January 1961) is a Turkish politician from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who currently serves as a Member of Parliament since the June 2015 general election.

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Filiz Koçali

Filiz Koçali (born 22 January 1958, Istanbul) is a female Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist.

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Halil Berktay

Halil Berktay is a Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily Taraf.

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Hasan Cemal

Hasan Cemal (born 1944) is a Turkish journalist and writer.

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Lale Akgün

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Leyla Zana

Leyla Zana (born 3 May 1961) is a Kurdish politician.

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Murat Belge

Murat Belge (born 16 March 1943) is a Turkish academic, translator, literary critic, columnist, civil rights activist, and occasional tour guide.

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Murathan Mungan

Murathan Mungan (born 21 April 1955) is a Turkish author, short story writer, playwright, and poet.

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National Assembly (Azerbaijan)

The National Assembly (Milli Məclis), also transliterated as Milli Mejlis, is the legislative branch of government in Azerbaijan.

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Nationalist Movement Party

The Nationalist Movement Party (alternatively translated as Nationalist Action Party; Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a Turkish far-right, ultranationalist political party.

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Orhan Kemal Cengiz

Orhan Kemal Cengiz is a Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist.

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Orhan Miroğlu

Orhan Miroğlu (born 1 January 1953, Midyat, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Mhallami origin and columnist for Taraf and Today's Zaman.

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Pınar Selek

Pınar Selek (born October 8, 1971) is a Turkish sociologist, feminist, and author.

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014.

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Sırrı Sakık

Sırrı Sakık (born 1 August 1957, Yörecik, Muş Province, Turkey) is a Turkish-Kurdish journalist and politician.

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Selahattin Demirtaş

Selahattin Demirtaş (born 10 April 1973) is a Turkish politician and author of Zaza origin.

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Sezai Temelli

Sezai Temelli (born 1963) is a Turkish politician, and former chairman of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey.

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Sezgin Tanrıkulu

Sezgin Tanrıkulu is a Turkish human rights lawyer known for his defense of the rights of Kurdish citizens.

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Tahir Elçi

Tahir Elçi (1966, Cizre – 28 November 2015) was a Kurdish lawyer and the chairman of Diyarbakır Bar Association.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Ufuk Uras

Mehmet Ufuk Uras (born January 4, 1959, in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish left-libertarian politician and economist.

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Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Vergangenheitsbewältigung ("struggle of overcoming the past" or "work of coping with the past") is a German compound noun describing processes that since the later 20th century have become key in the study of post-1945 German literature, society, and culture.

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Yavuz Bingöl

Yavuz Bingöl (born 7 October 1964) is a Turkish folk music singer and actor.

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Zelimkhan Yaqub

Zelimkhan Yaqub (21 January 1950 – 9 January 2016) was an Azerbaijani poet and politician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Apologize_campaign

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2008 in Turkey

Armenian genocide commemoration

Mass media freedom in Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan controversies

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