Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has personally asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel not to include the term “genocide” in the text of a resolution that will be put to a vote in the German Bundestag.
On Tuesday evening, Davutoglu had a telephonic conversation with Merkel on this matter, reported Die Welt daily of Germany.
According to the daily’s sources, the Turkish PM had substantiated his respective request by arguing that the term “genocide” is not applicable for the killings of the Armenians in 1915, since this term had begun to be used solely after the Second World War.
As reported earlier, a resolution on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide will be put to a vote in Bundestag on Friday, April 24—that is, on the anniversary of this genocide.
The text of this resolution says that during the First World War, the destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the greatest disaster in the thousand-year history of the Armenian people, and this tragedy had serious consequences. “We urge Turkey to stop denying the fact,” the resolution specifically reads.
