International Association of Genocide Scholars has called on Germany to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The Association has sent a letter to Bundestag president Norbert Lammert, chairman of foreign relations committee Norbert Röttgen and heads of two factions.

“The German government’s engagement with the Armenian genocide is vitally important to the international perspective in the aftermath of this history,” the letter reads.

The letter says German documents on the Armenian genocide are an important part of the historical record.

“We call on German legislators in this centennial year of 2015 to officially resolve in written form the forceful legal opinions made by speakers of all parliamentary factions on, April 24, 2015, confirming the genocide against the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek populations of the Ottoman Empire. We believe German leadership will help Turkey to address its own struggles with historical memory and will help support progressive forces inside Turkey, and Turkey’s forward progress as a proud nation.”