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Ulla Jelpke

Unworthy Manoeuvring of CDU/CSU Around Genocide Term

“The tortuous manoeuvring by government and coalition about the term “Genocide” is a highly unworthy spectacle. Regarding the 100th anniversary of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire the Bundestag has to face its historical responsibility and clearly name the crimes committed against humanity.”, declares the spokesperson for interior policy of the DIE LINKE faction in Bundestag, Ulla Jelpke. The MP further:

“We owe this to the descendants of the victims as well as our own history because the German Empire complicited in this genocide as closest war ally of the Ottomans.  By being falsely considerate towards Ankara federal foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, stabs those in the back that under immense personal risks endeavour to account for the Ottoman past since years in Turkey.”