Wall Street Journal Runs Ad Denying Armenian Genocide (Photo)

The Wall Street Journal is being strongly criticized on social media after running a full-page ad Wednesday for a website that denies the Armenian genocide, a mass killing that began in April 1915 and left 1.5 million people dead.

“Truth = Peace,” the controversial ad reads.

It features a hand with the Turkish flag making a peace sign, while two hands crossing their fingers have the Russian and Armenian flags on them. Readers are furious that the WSJ placed an ad directing people to FactCheckArmenia.com.

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Once you’re on the site it reads: “False: The events of 1915 constitute a clear-cut genocide against the Armenian people.”

The site continues to say there “is no legal consensus to support the Armenians’ attempts to portray these actions as a willful, deliberate attempt to commit genocide of the Armenian people — a specific crime defined by international law.”

The genocide involved the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the present-day Republic of Turkey.

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Based on social media reactions, people aren’t pleased with the paper’s desicion to run the ad. See some of the enraged tweets below.

Full-page ad in today's @WSJ denying the Armenian genocide pic.twitter.com/LjBGjCo80l

— Gary Bass (@Gary__Bass) April 20, 2016

Last stage of #genocide is denial and @wsj has chosen to profit from it. Disgusting! @Gary__Bass #ArmenianGenocide pic.twitter.com/qaYYrpEWFd

— Kate Nahapetian (@KN87) April 20, 2016

@Gary__Bass @WSJ Shame on WSJ for taking money for this

— kim oconnor (@kimoco) April 20, 2016

@KN87 @WSJ @Gary__Bass I think the last stage of #Genocide denial, is trying to get others to believe you.#ArmenianGenocide #NeverForget

— Sir(Darren) Welshie (@SirWelshie) April 20, 2016

 

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