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Istanbul police has cordoned off the area in front of the German Consulate General to protect against anti-German protests. Several dozen demonstrators are protesting in sight of the consulate against the recognition of the …
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the decision to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide will seriously impact Turkish-German relations. Erdogan said recalling the ambassador for consultations was a …
Turkey has recalled its Ambassador to Berlin Hüsein Avni Karslioglu for consultations after the German parliament had adopted a resolution recognizing the genocide of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, TASS reports. …
The German Bundesdag has approved the draft resolution recognizing the so-called Armenian genocide by an overwhelming majority of voters. It is known that only one MP voted against the resolution and one more MP abstained. "The adoption of a resolution on the Armenian genocide by the Bundestag is an example of democratic culture in action," the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. The Chancellor said at the joint press conference with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: "When you do not always agree with your partners and disagree on some issues is also a part of democratic culture".
Turkish political commentator Burhan Ozkoshar, in an interview with a correspondent of Vestnik Kavkaza, named the decision on the prohibition of criminalizing denial of the 'Armenian genocide', adopted by the ECHR, as an …
