Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel concern about the planned resolution of the Bundestag condemning the Ottoman empire as genocide of Armenians during the first world war.
Authorities in Ankara opposed to the use of the term in relation to the events of 101 years. They argue that the number of victims is skewed, say the victims of civil war and unrest and protest against the commonly represented by historians view that the massacre of Armenians was the first act of genocide in the twentieth century. 
In an interview with the German Chancellor Erdogan stressed how important it is “prudent approach” to this issue – said the office.
During a televised press conference, Erdogan warned on Tuesday that planned by the German parliament resolution will harm relations between Ankara and Berlin.
2 June Bundestag will debate the proposal of a resolution by the CDU / CSU, SPD and Greens, entitled “the memory of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities 101 years ago.”
Armenian genocide
According to historians in 1915-1917 made by the Turkish forces massacres and deportations lives of about 1, 5 million Armenian inhabitants of the then Ottoman empire. The nature and scale of this crime remains the subject of dispute, in which the Turkish side questions the term “genocide” and the number of victims. He admits only that in the battles between Turks and Armenians, which began in 1915, there were many casualties on the side of the Armenians.
The German government avoid friction with the Turkish authorities, fearing a negative impact on the contract EU-Turkey that is, according to Berlin, the key to resolving the crisis of migration. The German Foreign Ministry was initially opposed to use in the resolution of the term “genocide”.
Author: KLO / kk / PAP
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