YEREVAN, MAY 31, ARMENPRESS. Germany’s Green Party Co-chairman Cem Ozdemir of Turkish descent has commented on the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide to be discussed this week in Bundestag. Ozdemir believes that on June 2 the parliamentary factions of Germany will approve the resolution elaborated jointly by themselves.

Referring to Erdoğan’s proposal to set a special commission on examining historical facts, Ozdemir assessed it as senseless.

“Armenpress” reports, citing Ermenihaber, addressing Ankara, Ozdemir stated that Turkey has to clarify its expectations over the Armenian issue. According to the politician it was a wrong step to sign the Zurich protocols and then step back from them and Turkey leads a zigzag policy in this relation.

In the end the Co-chair of the Greens added that his mother used to bring the example of Kyutahia region’s leader, who opposed the Armenian deportation. Ozdemir urged everyone to acknowledge what has happened. He also added that deliberately harming others is not typical for the Islam his mother taught him.

In 2005, Germany's parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian massacres, deportations and ethnic cleanings by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. However, in the Bundestag’s decision, the term Armenian Genocide was avoided, and instead "massacres of Armenians" was used.  In March of 2015, the President of the German Parliament Norbert Lammert said: "what happened in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in front of the whole world, was genocide. And it was not the last genocide of the 20th century. "

On April 24, before the Bundestag hearings, Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced that he supports those MPs, who are in favor of calling the mass killings of Armenians “Genocide”. On April 23, during the ceremony in the Berlin Cathedral dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide, German President Joachim Gauck used the term “Genocide” in his speech.