‘ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’ DEMO TAKES PLACE IN BERLIN

Expatica, Netherlands
March 20 2006

BERLIN – More than 2,000 Turkish nationalists demonstrated in Berlin
on Saturday in support of denials that a genocide of Armenians took
place under the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The protestors demanded among other things the repeal of a resolution
passed by a unanimous vote in the German parliament last year that
called on Turkey to hold an open dialogue on the Armenian massacre.

The resolution has contributed to a rift between Germany and Turkey.

According to independent estimates, more than a million Armenians
were killed in the massacre.

A Berlin court on Friday allowed the demonstration to take place
under strict conditions, included not characterizing the

Armenian massacre as a lie in either speech or on placards.

The march had originally been banned by the police.