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Turks protest in Ankara against German "genocide" recognition

Xinhua, June 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Around 40 people from two Turkish organizations gathered outside the German Embassy in Ankara on Friday, protesting the German parliament's resolution recognizing an Armenian "genocide" during the World War I.

The protesters are affiliated with the Turkish Modern Women Association and Turkey Union of Public Employees.

On Thursday, the German parliament passed a resolution recognizing the World War I-era killings of Anatolian Armenians at the hands of Ottomans as "genocide."

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) signed a joint declaration on Thursday rejecting the German move.

"We strongly condemn the resolution that is based on groundless Armenian allegations. The resolution has no historical or legal validity," read the joint declaration.

Turkish Ambassador in Berlin Huseyin Karslioglu returned to Turkey late on Thursday, after the German parliament approved the bill describing the 1915 massacres of Ottoman Armenians as "genocide."

"Our friendship and our relations with Germany will continue. We will act logically," Karslioglu told reporters on his arrival at Esenboga Airport in Ankara.

On Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the relations between Turkey and Germany will not suffer despite the resolution.

"We will look at the background of the resolution and give the necessary response," he told reporters. Endit