Germany Faces Turkish Wrath After Recognizing Armenian Genocide
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Germany’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to recognize the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings and deportations of Armenians as genocide, prompting Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan to warn that relations between the two countries will suffer.
Turkey recalled its ambassador to Berlin after 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. The decision puts Germany in line with countries such as France, Russia, Greece, Sweden and the Netherlands in recognizing the events during World War I as a deliberate campaign of extermination.