Alwaght- German foreign minister has reportedly sent an alarm to eleven Turkish Mps of German Parliament who voted for recognition of the Armenian genocide, not to visit Turkey or face safety risks there.
German MPs of Turkish origin have been recommended not travel to Turkey in the nearest future as “their security could not be guaranteed,” RT quoted Der Spiegel as saying.
“It is unspeakable to know for the first time that it’s no longer possible to fly there,” Aydan Ozoguz, a Socialist Democratic Party MP told Der Spiegel. “Erdogan needs to realize that we are not an extension of Turkey,” she said.
Other German-Turkish MPs have already canceled business trips to Ankara and summer holidays on the Bosporus, according to the magazine. One lawmaker reportedly made sure that his parents leave their family house in Turkey, seeking shelter at a hotel in another city.
Cem Ozdemir, Green Party leader and one of the advocates of the resolution to recognize the genocide, has said: “Of course, I think of what happens if someone goes nuts and does street justice.”
Following the vote last week in Bundestag many of German MPs of Turkish descent received death threatening massages.
Cem Özdemir, who played an active role in the approval of the bill was been given a personal police guard, his executive assistant said on Sunday.
Last week, 11 MPs of Turkish descent voted for a landmark resolution to recognize Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
The resolution sparking a barrage of accusations and threats from Turkey. Almost immediately after the vote, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the lawmakers’ blood must be tested in a lab for “Turkishness,” labeling them “the long arm of the separatist terrorists placed in Germany.”
