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Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of the—pro-Kurdish—opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey, noted that the German Bundestag’s passing of the resolution on Armenian Genocide recognition is not a sanction on Turkey, reported Diken news website of the country.

“This decision is a decision belated for one hundred years,” said Demirtaş. “And now, Kurds are being subjected to genocide in Turkey. If Germany reaches a decision in this regard one hundred years later, it will have no meaning.”

HDP is the only party in the Turkish parliament to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, on Thursday formally recognized the Armenian Genocide, with the aforesaid resolution and with only one vote against and one abstention. The resolution also notes that the Bundestag regrets that the German government at the time did nothing to stop this crime against humanity, and therefore the Bundestag also acknowledges the respective historical accountability of Germany.

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