Alwaght- Turkey will react to German parliament’s resolution recognition of the Armenian killing as genocide, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday.
"We will take action against the German parliament's resolution. We cannot stay silent," Cavusoglu stated as aired by the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).
Further he stressed that German Government has to determine its position on the issue so it does not overlap with the German parliament resolution.
The German parliament, Bundestag, voted last week to recognize the 1915-1916 killings by the Ottoman Empire of the Armenians as genocide.
Eleven MPs of Turkish origin voted for the resolution, sparking a barrage of accusations from Ankara. German Green Party leader Ozcan Mutlu is at the forefront of the verbal assault.
Threatening the German MPs of Turkish origin, Erdogan told a cheering audience that “Their [Turkish MPs] blood is impure and we know whose spokespeople they are,” “They are the long arm of the separatist terrorists placed in Germany.”
During 1915, between 800,000 and 1.5 million ethnic Armenians were killed by Ottoman forces. Turkey disputes the scale of the tragedy. It also insists that the deaths were not the result of an intentional government policy, saying that the Armenians sided with Russia against their own government during World War I.
Armenians claim that during 1915 up to 1.5 million Armenian Christians were systematically slaughtered in eastern Turkey during World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Ankara rejects the term genocide and says 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians perished and the deaths were not the result of an intentional government policy, saying that the Armenians sided with Russia against their own government during World War I.
