He apologized to Armenians before the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan

Hassan Djemal, columnist Turkish site T24 and grand-son of Djemal Pasha, one of the executors of the Armenian Genocide, included in the 2014 list of “100 heroes Press” established by the Association of Reporters Without Borders (RSF ). According to them, when Hassan Djemal was editor and columnist for the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, he was the target of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In addition in 2012 the book Hassan Djemal on the Armenian genocide was one of the bestsellers in Turkey. Recall that Hassan Djemal went in 2008 in Armenia, the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan and apologized to Armenians for the genocide committed by Turkey in 1915. He dedicated his book “1915 Armenian Genocide” on memory of Hrant Dink.

Krikor Amirzayan