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If the German Bundestag adopts a decision on condemning the Armenian Genocide, this will lead to two consequences: it will be a good moral slap in the face of Turkey and Berlin may take up certain obligations, Genocide recognition committee member in Germany, professor at Free University of Berlin and Armenian scholar Zhirayr Kocharyan said. He also expressed hope that Germany may once have powerful authorities who will acknowledge the Armenian Genocide

But, according to him, the policy of Germany hasn’t changed at all since the Kaiser period and appears to be the same indecent policy. “Germany has been the ally of Turkey as early as from the period of the WWI. It took up the responsibility to equip the Turkish Army with new weapons. About 4 million Turks work in Germany and third and fourth generations of Turks greatly impact the foreign policy of the FRG,” Kocharyan said. In his words, the ties between the two countries are very close. “No country will accept its guilt voluntarily. If it weren’t for the strong pressure from the side of the Jewish organizations, Germany wouldn’t have accepted its guilt in committing the Holocaust. I think if Armenia and other countries put pressure on Turkey, the same will happen in the issue of the Armenian Genocide. The time is working in our favor,” Kocharyan said. He also noted that unlike the period 20-30 years ago, currently there is no one in Germany who doesn’t know about the Armenian Genocide. 

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