MEMBER OF BUNDESTAG URGES ERDOGAN TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

17:47 03.02.2014

Armenian Genocide, Bundestag, Germany

Erika Steinbach, a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
Christian Democratic Union Party urges Turkey to apologize for the
Armenian Genocide. The call came ahead of Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Germany, Bild reports.

“I urge Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to stop denying the genocide of
Armenians and Assyrians by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman
Empire 99 years ago,” Steinbach said. She added it’s time to apologize
to the descendants of the victims of the first genocide of the 20th
century.

“It is Erdogan’s duty to face the truth nearly 100 years after that
terrible crime and ensure that the Turkish textbooks do not disturb
this part of Turkish history,” Erika Steinbach stated.