Turkish Press
March 11 2005
German Embassy In Ankara: Documents In German Archives Pertaining To
Armenians Are Completely Open To Everybody
Published: 3/11/2005
ANKARA – German Embassy in Ankara said on Thursday that the documents
in German archives pertaining to Armenians were completely open
to everybody.
The Embassy issued a statement and said, “all German official documents
belonging to the period before 1945 are open to researches without
any restrictions.”
Emphasizing that this was particularly valid for the documents of
German Foreign Ministry Political Archives Department, the statement
said the documents had a particular importance as there had been
intensive diplomatic and military relations between Germany and the
Ottoman Empire being allies at those times and due to facilities to
acquire information were well.
The statement said the files pertaining to the issue were open to
everybody in Political Archives in Berlin.
The statement said all of those files were given to Armenia as
microfiche in 1998, and that Turkey took a copy of it.