The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has provoked large protests in Turkey by describing the World War I massacre of Armenians in Turkey as genocide.Governor Schwarzenegger may have been caught off guard by the backlash in Turkey over his decision to declare a 'Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide'.
Within hours of the California Governor using the term 'genocide' to describe the massacre of Armenians 90 years ago, furious Turks were demanding that every movie starring the former actor should be banned from Turkish television.Turkey fiercely denies Armenian claims that up to 1.5 million of their kin were systematically killed during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, saying most were victims of civil unrest, and that the figures are grossly inflated.
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