Turkey has Warned Germany not to Adopt Any Resolution on Armenian Genocide

• 05.03.2016, 14:14
•  Europe,  Region,  World

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"The Bundestag will adopt a resolution on June 2, concerning characterization of the mass murder and expulsion of Armenians during World War I as genocide," Social Democratic Party member, Thomas Oppermann told the Tagesspiegel.

German "Greens" and Left-wing parties also called the 1915 events as genocide, Deutsche Welle reports.

The resolution of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide was brought to Bundestag agenda last year, the adoption of which was hindered by Turkey with its continuous blackmailing to the German Government. 

Interestingly enough, Ankara even opposed the recent concert in Germany dedicated to the Armenian Genocide, as a result of which Dresden Symphony Orchestra got a number of problems.

The project ''Aget'' or a ''disaster'' in English, brought together musicians of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, their colleagues from Armenia, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. The European Commission acted as a sponsor but soon was forced to make some concessions to the Turkish side.

The matter is that Ankara demanded an ultimatum to remove the information about the project ''Aget'' containing the word ''genocide'' from the official website of the European Commission, and for some reason, the European bureaucrats immediately obeyed.

''The fact that the information about the project was removed from the site is a humiliating act of submission,'' the member of the Bundestag Erika Steinbach said.

The boundaries of the permissible, as many Germans think, were violated when Chancellor Angela Merkel went under pressure from Ankara and agreed to prosecute satirist Ian Bemermana, who offended the Turkish President Erdogan.

''The federal government makes itself an accomplice with Erdogan crimes and encourages him,'' the deputy of the Bundestag Sevim Dağdelen said.

In short, the prosecution of foreign journalists and now German satirist by Turkish authorities, together with a new case of the musical project ''Aget'' are pure manifestations of the ''rape of democracy'' in Germany and the EU in general, concerning which hot discussions and debates are going on recently in Bundestag.