Turkish Press
June 19 2005

Press Scan

SABAH

RESPONSE FROM GERMANY

Thomas Steg, deputy spokesman of the German government, reacted to
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s criticism. After the
German parliament approved a resolution on so-called Armenian
genocide, Erdogan stated that Turkey had opened up its archives for
researchers to study the so-called Armenian genocide allegations, but
said no one had taken up the offer to investigate them. Noting that
history would put them to shame, Erdogan indicated that also the
future would put them to shame. It is a balanced resolution, Thomas
Steg told the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel in an interview. On the other
hand, Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc will send a letter of
condemnation to German parliament.