German parliament condemns Turkish threats against lawmakers


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Jun 2016

German Bundestag President Norbert Lammert delivers a speech during a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day in Reichstag, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

BERLIN (Reuters) - The president of Germany's parliament condemned threats against German lawmakers of Turkish origin after the Bundestag last week passed a resolution declaring the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide.

Ankara rejects the idea that the killings of Christian Armenians during World War One amounted to a genocide. Following the resolution there have been death threats and verbal attacks against German politicians with Turkish roots.

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