NTV MSNBC, Turkey
June 17 2005

German parliament’s Armenian bill draws Turkish ire

The CHP said that the bill was a fiasco on the behalf of the
government’s foreign relations policy.

Guncelleme: 17:43 TSI 17 Haziran 2005 Cuma- The German parliament’s
passing of a motion recognising claims that the Ottoman Empire had
massacred many of its Armenian community some 90 years ago will cast
a shadow over Turkish-German relations, the speaker of the Turkish
parliament said Friday.

Parliamentary speaker Bulent Arinc has sent a letter to his German
counterpart saying that the bill, which also calls on Turkey to
acknowledge the allegations that Armenians were massacred in 1915,
was neither based on common sense or on facts.

Also on Friday, Kemal Anadol, the leader of the parliamentary group
of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said that
history and politics were two terms that should not come together and
slammed various parliaments for passing resolutions without knowledge
or understanding of the facts.

The leader of opposition True Path Party (DYP), Mehmet Agir, was
another to react to the bill, saying that by this decision Germany
had covered the head of history with a sack.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress