YEREVAN. – Following the German Bundestag’s adoption of the resolution that recognizes Armenian Genocide, Turkey has found itself in a strange situation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan told reporters, after Thursday’s Cabinet session.

In his words, when the participant accepts but the perpetrator denies its complicity, the latter’s demeanor becomes bizarre, at the very least.

Kocharyan added, however, that Turkey puts great pressure on Armenians not solely in Istanbul, but elsewhere in the country.

On June 2, the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, 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.