The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statements surprised the Turkish opposition press .

The Turkish Cumhuriyet reports, that the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-German statements, after the Bundestag had adopted the resolution, aroused a derision . In his  subsequent statement , Erdogan urged Germany first to recognize the Holocaust  as well as massacre of Namibians . "The difference between us and Germany is that the Turkish history is pure ," Erdogan said.