Germany will not compromise on the resolution of the Armenian Genocide
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that the German Cabinet will not compromise on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Merkel also called for the respect of the resolution adopted by German Bundestag on June 2, recognizing the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which led to the deterioration of the relations between Germany and Turkey.
“The German cabinet will not revoke the Bundestag resolution on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide for not spoiling relations with Turkey. Being myself a member to Bundestag, I know that the German Cabinet is not going to make an announcement over the resolution. Let me just stress that The Bundestag resolution should be respected,” Angela Merkel has said on the air of RTL GTV as quoted by Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Earlier on Sept. 2, Germany’s Spiegel Online reported that German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert was expected to make a public statement that would distance the government from the Bundestag’s decision, in exchange for German lawmakers being able to visit the German troops based at Incirlik.
To remind, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday, that Germany’s parliamentary vote declaring the World War I mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 a genocide is “not legally binding.”
“The German parliament naturally has the right and the freedom to pass any resolution it likes, but the Bundestag itself has said that not every resolution is legally binding,” Reuters quoted Steinmeier as saying in Berlin.