Arminfo, Armenia Aug 24 2018 Chancellor Merkel: I do not consider the issue of Armenian Genocide recognition in legal framework Yerevan August 24 Naira Badalian. Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire is not a legal issue, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated at a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on August 24 in Yerevan. According to Merkel, Germany remembers the terrible events of 1915 against the Armenian people. As she recalled, in June 2016 the Bundestag adopted a resolution on recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. "In accordance with the spirit of this resolution, I have visited Tsitsernakaberd today, and we realize that terrible events occurred in 1915. This fact should not be forgotten, this is not a legal issue for me," Merkel said.