In the Middle East, the past is the present

"Turkey’s desire to champion human rights in the region is a welcome development, but Mr. Erdogan’s condemnation of Syria is remarkably hypocritical. As long as Turkey continues to deny crimes committed against non-Turks in the early 1900s, during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, its calls for freedom, justice and humanitarian values will ring false." 

Turkey’s Human Rights Hypocrisy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/turkeys-human-rights-hypocrisy.html