German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey.

German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey. (Bloomberg).

Germany’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to recognize the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings and deportations of Armenians as genocide, setting up the next potential source of conflict between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Lawmakers in the 630-member lower house, or Bundestag, passed the resolution on Thursday by a show of hands, with one vote against and one abstention, according to the count announced by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert.

The vote puts Germany in line with countries such as France, Russia, Greece, Sweden and the Netherlands that recognize the events during World War I as a deliberate campaign of mass killings.

“Turkey’s current government isn’t responsible for what happened 100 years ago, but it does share responsibility for what happens going forward,” Lammert said in a speech to the lower house. Read the full story here.

More on the Armenian Genocide can be read here.

Complete text of resolution on #ArmenianGenocide adopted by Bundestag
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German resolution also claims the Ottomans committed genocide against the Assyrians, Syriacs and Chaldeans: https://t.co/LJYjj5IIsi

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VIDEO: Armenians celebrate #Germany's genocide resolution today - @HasanSari7 pic.twitter.com/Z8uwLalibO

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TURKEY: Senior AKP lawmaker: German MPs of Turkish origin who signed genocide bill should not set foot in #Turkey https://t.co/qLyF4VyTpK

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Justice Minister Bozdağ: "You burn Jews in ovens, then you get up and decide to accuse the Turkish nation of genocide."

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