Turkish PM apologizes over 1930s killings of Kurds
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Turkey's prime minister has apologized for the first time for the killings of nearly 14,000 people in a bombing and strafing campaign to crush a Kurdish rebellion in the 1930s
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday: "If there is need for an apology on behalf of the state ... I would apologize and I am apologizing." It was the first official apology from the Turkish government over the killings of 13,806 people in the southeastern town of Dersim — now known as Tunceli — between 1936 and 1939. (AP)
