German Government considers essential creation of historians’ commission to study 1915 events in Ottoman Turkey
18:05 / 03/03/2010
“German Federal Government considers necessary the creation of independent historians’ and scholars’ committee to study the 1915 events in Ottoman Turkey. The government has already opened and made public archives for the research,” says the letter of German Government to Bundestag MPs’ inquiry about Armenian Genocide in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
MPs that sent a letter to the Government are not satisfied with this answer. “Response of German Federal Government on Armenian Genocide in 1915 is an evasion from political responsibility,” said German MP Katharine Werner.
She maintained that Federal Government dodges a decisive question whether deportation and mass slaughter of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was “genocide” as UN Convention adopted in 1948 reads. “Stance of Federal Government is an open strike at German Armenian community that to date fought with gloves off for their tragic lot be recognized as &‘genocide’. Thereby the government outdid even Bundestag, they could at lest express regret over the mass deportation and massacres of Armenians,” the MP declared.
According to her, Federal Government’s stand means history’s oblivion and absence of political responsibility.
“It makes wonder how Turkey is supposed to avow fact of Armenian Genocide, if German Federal Government rejects to do so?” Werner said.
The following conclusion is forced upon — it is necessary to study this tragedy in schools and call Genocide victims by names, the MP underlined.
The letter to Federal Government with 11 questions was signed by Bundestag MPs – Katharine Werner, Christine Buchholz, Jan van Aken, Wolfgang Gehrcke and the Left.
In 2005, Bundestag unanimously condemned mass deportations and killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and expressed wish to assist Armenia-Turkey reconciliation.
MPs that sent a letter to the Government are not satisfied with this answer. “Response of German Federal Government on Armenian Genocide in 1915 is an evasion from political responsibility,” said German MP Katharine Werner.
She maintained that Federal Government dodges a decisive question whether deportation and mass slaughter of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 was “genocide” as UN Convention adopted in 1948 reads. “Stance of Federal Government is an open strike at German Armenian community that to date fought with gloves off for their tragic lot be recognized as &‘genocide’. Thereby the government outdid even Bundestag, they could at lest express regret over the mass deportation and massacres of Armenians,” the MP declared.
According to her, Federal Government’s stand means history’s oblivion and absence of political responsibility.
“It makes wonder how Turkey is supposed to avow fact of Armenian Genocide, if German Federal Government rejects to do so?” Werner said.
The following conclusion is forced upon — it is necessary to study this tragedy in schools and call Genocide victims by names, the MP underlined.
The letter to Federal Government with 11 questions was signed by Bundestag MPs – Katharine Werner, Christine Buchholz, Jan van Aken, Wolfgang Gehrcke and the Left.
In 2005, Bundestag unanimously condemned mass deportations and killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and expressed wish to assist Armenia-Turkey reconciliation.
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