Support to Armenian Genocide Bill from German Press

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The bill concerning the 1915 Armenian Genocide will be voted at the German Confederation tomorrow (June 2).

The German Confederation had approved a bill in 2005, however, despite including the arguments of many scientists and historians claiming it to qualify a genocide, it didn’t directly use the term of genocide.

“Armenians are being forgotten again”

Deutche Welle Türkçe has conveyed what is written in the German press as to the bill.

The following article appeared in Leipziger Volkszeitung as to the Armenian Genocide:

“The MPs are not making law or coming to a judgement. The bill is a gesture against oppressing of the collective trauma that every Armenians are still experiencing.

“What is tragic is that the bill will be discussed by taking only Turkey or [President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan into consideration. Some see it as a resistance act against Erdoğan, and some others mull over whether the despot at the Bosporus will get frustrated. Armenians are being forgotten again”.

“A right step”

Landeszeitung daily used the following phrases:

“The timing couldn’t be worse but still voting will take place in the German Confederation tomorrow and the genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians 100 years ago will be defined.

“Turkey, which Germany needs for the refugees is on alert; it is uttering threats. Germany might have more different and greater issues than this, and could have facilitated its life with the bill. Nevertheless, it is a right step to give this massacre in 1915 its proper name”.

“There should be more”

Der Tagesspiegel daily published in Berlin

“In order to arrive at agreement, low voices and diplomatic intuitions are more important than demands voiced loudly.

“Erdoğan came together with the grandchildren of the victims and silently tolerated the concept of ‘genocide’. More than this is desired but experience shows that pressure from outside won’t prepare Erdoğan for this understanding. On the contrary, German parliamentarians are risking the process because they are right and want to demonstrate their power”.

Letter to parliament: The bill should involve Rums as well

The report in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung conveyed that Societies Under Threat (GfbV) demanded that German Confederation shows as interest in minorities of Christian belief too.

GfbV Secretary General Tilman Zülch in his letter addressing the MPs defended that “The bill seen in the parliament concerning the Armenians be killed in 1915 is not ‘complete’, and the bill should involce Thracian Rums, Pontus Rums and Aegean Rums too”. (AS/TK)