Turkish media touched upon German outlet’s responses to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s apology for riots in Dersim

German Markische Oderzeitung wrote that the apology of Prime Minister of Turkey provoked a lot of questions.

"At this point one thinks of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians committed 100 years ago, but why Erdogan does not apologize for this?" wrote the German edition, stressing that Erdogan's apologies have bright political overtones.

Deutsche Welle, in turn, said that Erdogan’s words were aimed at oppositional Republican People's Party.

"The pursuit of political dividends at the expense of victims of those times is a crime by itself. Even as the PM speaks the Turkish army carries out the same operations against Kurds, who ask for autonomy – the same as it was in Dersim,” writes Deutsche Welle.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized for the massacres in Dersim. He accused then ruling Republican People's Party in the organization of pogroms.

In 1938 Turkish authorities suppressed the Dersim uprising, destroying hundreds of villages. Different sources say around 100 thousand people were slaughtered, among those Armenians who survived 1915 Genocide.