Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier stands with those who call to describe murders of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
The 1915 events can be “united in a term genocide”, he said in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The issue will be soon debated by Bundestag on April 24, Deutsche Welle reported.
The German government avoided using a “G-word” so far not to damage relations with Turkey.