So Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has described the ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang region as "a kind of genocide".
Now at last we know then, what the Turkish authorities consider to be "genocide": it's the death of 47 people and the injury of few hundred others.
Well, not just any old people exactly. Just some people, apparently.
Because the Turkish authorities do not consider the deaths of between one and one-and-a-half million Armenians due to forced marches, ethnic cleansing and good old-fashioned massacres, to have been "a kind of genocide" at all.
What a strange, what an obscene, double standard!
To the BBC's eternal shame, the article linked at the top of this post, reporting Mr Erdogan's words, does not contain any reference to Turkey's Armenian Genocide. Which might have put things into a bit of context.
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