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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Erdogan threatens Germany over adoption of Armenian Genocide bill

Erdogan threatens Germany over adoption of Armenian Genocide bill

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to the upcoming discussion over the adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by the German Bundestag stating that Turkey doesn’t have “the so-called Armenian Genocide issue”, “Armenpress” reports, Anadolu says.

“We have nothing to worry over this issue. Currently more than 3 million Turks live in Germany, and our relations are at the highest level. If Germany would go to such a step, it will damage the diplomatic, trade, political and military relations with Turkey. I think that Germany will take into account all these factors”, Erdogan threatened.

He said Turkish government will observe in detail and give appropriate assessment to the decision made by the German Bundestag. “However, I would like to say this decision doesn’t impose anything on us from the standpoint of international law”, Erdogan stated.

The draft resolution of the Armenian Genocide will be discussed in the German Bundestag on June 2.

In 2005, Germany's parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the Armenian massacres, deportations and ethnic cleanings. However, in the Bundestag’s decision, the term Armenian Genocide was avoided, and instead "massacres of Armenians" was used.

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.

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”. During the session the leaders of various party fractions also came with their pro-Armenian statements admitting what had happened. However, the discussion of the resolution indefinitely postponed.   

The heated discussion of the Armenian Genocide on February 25 at Bundestag did not terminate with voting in 2016.

 








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