David Ignatius ( May 26, 1950 ) is an American journalist and writer of Armenian descent. Columnist at the Washington Post . According to his novel “The Set of Lies”, the eponymous dramatic action film directed by Ridley Scott was shot.
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In January 2009, the incident was widely publicized at the World Economic Forum in Davos , where David Ignatius, moderator of the discussion between Shimon Peres and Recep Tayyip Erdogan , interrupted the Turkish Prime Minister’s emotional speech, citing the need to comply with the regulations. Erdogan, in response, lamented that the President of Israel was given 25 minutes to speak, and he was given much less. Turkish Prime Minister asked David Ignatius to let him speak again, which he took him one minute. Continuing to blame Peres, Erdogan, in particular, said: “I am very sorry that people applauded your words today. Indeed, many people died in Gaza . And I think that this is wrong and completely inhumane. " To this, Ignatius noted: “We cannot start the discussion again. We just do not have enough time. " Erdogan asked: "Please let me finish." To which Ignatius said: “We really need people to have lunch” [1] . After these words, Erdogan stood up and said, “Thank you very much. Thank. Thank you very much. I don’t think that after that I will return to Davos, ”he left the hall.
The incident gained particular piquancy after it turned out that the moderator of the discussion, David Ignatius, was Armenian. He wrote about this in an article in the Washington Post on October 14, 2007: “I am an American Armenian, and some of my relatives died during the genocide . [2] "