YEREVAN, JUNE 3, ARMENPRESS. Turkish “Justice and Development”, opposition “Republican People’s”, and “Nationalist movement” parties represented in the Turkish Parliament issued a statement condemning the adoption of the resolution of the Armenian Genocide by the German Bundestag, “Armenpress” reports, “Anadolu” says.

Pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party did not join the statement.

The parties said in the statement the Bundestag made an “unfair and groundless” decision. They threatened that the resolution “will damage the friendly relations between Turkey and Germany”.

The German Bundestag adopted the Armenian Genocide recognition resolution, which is entitled "Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916".

Only one MP voted against the adoption, and one abstained.

Speakers were unanimously stressing the need of facing the past, also for contributing the reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey.

The Bundestag voiced the crime of the Ottoman Turkey, and stressed this step is neither an accusation nor a claim, but a tribute to the memory of the victims.