STRASBOURG - ``You shouldn`t confuse the concepts of insult and freedom of criticism,`` said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after claims of Danish radical left parliamentarian Rune Lund following the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg.
Lund claimed that under the freedom of expression he must have the right to say that ``Turks committed genocide on Armenians, occupied Cyprus and outraged Kurds``.
Erdogan, in return, reacted strongly and said, ``you should not fail to distinguish between the concepts of insult and freedom of criticism. Danish parliamentarian claims that there is so-called Armenian genocide, but his statements must be based on scientific data.``
Erdogan stressed that Turkey proposed historians to research so-called Armenian genocide in a scientific way, but has not received a response yet.