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President of the Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck has given the coup de grace to the Turkish state lie

May 15, 2015 By administrator

The German-Turkish axis lived.

He stopped turning round after a century of complicity in breaking a silence that Armenians vain denounced a hue and cry endlessly.

By recognizing the Armenian Genocide as the first of the twentieth century, Pope Francis has planted at a historic homily at the Vatican ahead of the elevation of St. Gregory of Narek to the rank of Doctor of the Universal Church April 12, 2015.

This is not all!

After the European Parliament and despite its obscure president Martin Schultz, after Austria and before Bulgaria, an exceptional man, President of the Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck has given the coup de grace to the Turkish state lie in not only recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915, but above all by admitting complicity or co-guilt of German Second Reich in its commission.

By speaking in precise terms, selected and targeted, the altar of the Cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015, this man of faith and conviction brought down the wall that concealed the horror and made squealing fury Grand Turk never saw it coming.

To say that the Imperial German government played an obscure role in the execution of the genocide of Armenians by the Young Turk dictatorship during the Great War of 1914-1918. Informed by his intelligence officers, charitable and health organizations, industrialists, intellectuals, Deutsche Bahn employees, consuls and sinister Wangenheim, German Ambassador in Constantinople, he followed from day to day, often without the knowledge of Turks, the progress of the Armenian People’s extermination program.

Flanked by Walter Rössler, former German Consul in Aleppo, a Göppert Otto, a senior official at the German embassy in Constantinople, will remain throughout the war the henchman of Talaat Pasha, Enver and Djemal. It is he who will create a propaganda service responsible for translating and disseminating a revisionist booklet called “Truth on the Armenian revolutionary movement and government action” and many other publications of the same vein under national solidarity as war while imposing censorship on the atrocities committed against the Armenians.

Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg personally ordered the publication of shameful book written by Enver Pasha “Memoirs of Tripoli.”

Another German in charge of Armenian issues at the embassy of Constantinople, Heinrich Mordtmann will be responsible for the theory of the Armenian nationalist plot to justify the killings.

Especially, December 17, 1915, in the heart of terror, when the highest German diplomats – Metternich, German Ambassador Wangenheim successor to Constantinople, Gottlieb von Jagow also Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, horrified – interfered with the Chancellery for a German official disapproval against anti-Armenian atrocities committed by the Turks, Bethmann Hollweg replied, “The proposal for a public condemnation of an ally in the war, would be contrary to our entire history. Our only goal is to keep Turkey on our side until the end of the war, the Armenians perish or not. As the war continues and we will still need the Turks. “

It is therefore in full knowledge that the Chancellor gave the Armenians to their fate, that in order not to affect the Turkish-German sacred union based on a pact which entrusted the high command of the Turkish army from the Second Reich beginning of the Great War.

It is clear that the exclusive priority of the German Empire was maintaining a military front in the Balkans and the Caucasus, and in any case the fate of a people as a whole, it must be totally exterminated.

The German behavior is therefore not within a simple copycat or passive indifference, but a calculation reflected strategic interests well understood. To satisfy his ally, it is undisputed that Germany adopted a demonic choices while dreading his own implication in the commission of the carnage. Despite the indignation of some good German souls, Pastor Johannes Lepsius in particular and contrasting positions in government and administration, it appears that the German authorities will never cease to work, during and after the war, dissimulation, disinformation, forgery and denial of the Armenian genocide.

His involvement in the occultation is such that it has taken the form of an active assent. This appears clearly in the close and mutual collaboration that presided between the two countries for the duration of the war, so that this agreement is the necessary condition for the continuation of the fatal destiny devoted to the Armenian people, as decided by the Young Turks. In full forfeiture of the Ottoman Empire, it is clear that a formal condemnation threatening German would suffice to put an end to the “Final Solution” or strongly impacted its magnitude. The Second Reich never actually intervened and sketched, let alone any humanitarian relief gesture. This decisive fault termination, voluntary, intentional and orchestrated, coupled with a deliberate failure to assist a people victim of a mass crime, determined the devastation of a nation several thousand years.

This is blatantly, of complicity in “crimes against humanity” in the terminology of the time.

In June 1921, defeated Germany thought he saw in the political acquittal Telhirian, executor of the Grand Vizier Talaat, a unique opportunity to exonerate himself and to avoid the banning of nations, fear that summarizes its real ongoing concern throughout this abomination. Then, the interest in the Armenian cause declining over time, looking for German responsibility faded to disappear with the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, ending the last hopes of a dying people. However, if the principle of the supremacy of the moral law on the opacity of the reason of state is not an illusion, then the inalienable responsibility of Germany is indisputable. Therefore, even out of season 100 years have passed, adopting a bold face stance unjustifiable evil inflicted on the Body and the Soul of the Armenian nation to grow.

By accepting out of a secular silence, compromising and assume its overwhelming role in this “detail” of history in an unprecedented confession designed to improve international awareness morale and pedagogical level, without exempting the least world of its responsibilities, the twenty-first century Germany Joachim Gauck President did so work of justice and peace between the Armenian and Turkish peoples, beyond the Anglo-American palinodes pathetic. It also helps to put these terrible events at the heart of European history.

After this unprecedented declaration of frankness and courage, confronting German archives to those bloated French, Russian, Austrian and Vatican, might even be unnecessary because no state better than Germany has irrefutable evidence of the reality of genocide Armenians. Already alone, the German President has put an end to this complicity that allowed impunity to erase a Christian people of its ancestral territory, by the most barbaric means to install another Muslim allegedly holder of original historical rights.

After shattering confession like repentance of this man, at the risk of the spread of revisionist poison radicalized under the rule of President-Caliph, the floor is now international institutions, Court of Justice or European Court of Human Rights of Man and the great diplomacy.

By restoring clear the links between German fascism, the Second and the Third Reich on the one hand and the two greatest genocides of the twentieth century on the other hand, we want to believe that the moment is near when the sun will rise on Turkey, a Germany and Armenia, united, hand in hand, at the Memorial Dzidzernakapert where the eternal flame burns the soul of our Holy Martyrs, at the foot of the sacred mountain of Christianity: Mount Ararat .

Armand SAMMELIAN May 2015

Friday, May 15, 2015,
Ara © armenews.com

(updated) German parliament overwhelmingly approve a resolution branding the mass killings of Armenian Genocide

April 24, 2015 By administrator

The German parliament overwhelmingly approved on Friday, April 24, a resolution branding the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces a century ago as Genocide, Reuters reports.

The vote marks a significant change of stance for Germany, Turkey’s biggest trade partner in the European Union and home to a large ethnic Turkish diaspora. Unlike France and some two dozen other countries, Berlin has long resisted using the word.

The term ‘Genocide’ also has special resonance in Germany, which has worked hard to come to terms with its responsibility for the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust.

In a parliamentary session to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the killings, all parliamentary groups in the Bundestag lower house backed the resolution in a vote likely to infuriate Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

“What happened in the middle of the First World War in the Ottoman Empire under the eyes of the world was a genocide,” Bundestag president Norbert Lammert said at the start of German lawmakers’ debate on the resolution.

It was earlier reported that the discussion was delayed till April 30.

Speaking at a church service in Berlin, President Gauck said: “The fate of the Armenians stands as exemplary in the history of mass exterminations, ethnic cleansing, deportations and yes, genocide, which marked the 20th century in such a terrible way.”

Gauck, added that Germans also bore some responsibility “and in some cases complicity” concerning the “genocide of the Armenians”. Germany was an ally of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Reuters: German lawmakers call massacre of Armenians ‘genocide’, defying Turkey

German president: Armenian killings were genocide

April 23, 2015 By administrator

President Gauck spoke on the eve of a debate in the German parliament on the issue

German President Joachim Gauck has described as “genocide” the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, a move likely to cause outrage in Turkey.

He was speaking on the eve of a debate in the German parliament on the issue.

The Armenian Church earlier canonised 1.5 million Armenians it says were killed in massacres and deportations by Ottoman Turks during World War One.

Turkey disputes the term “genocide“, arguing that there were many deaths on both sides during the conflict.

On Friday commemorations will mark the 100th anniversary of the killings.

German ‘responsibility’

Mr Gauck, who holds a largely ceremonial role, added that Germans also bore some responsibility “and in some cases complicity” concerning the “genocide of the Armenians”. Germany was an ally of the Ottoman Empire during World War One.

His comments come as the German parliament, the Bundestag, prepares to debate a motion on the 1915 massacres.

But instead of a clear statement of condemnation, politicians will discuss an opaque, tortuously-worded sentence, which aims to be unclear enough to keep everyone happy – with the sort of convoluted phrasing that the German language is so good at, the BBC’s Damien McGuinness in Berlin reports.

Germany joins Armenia genocide debate

Explosive issue

Earlier on Thursday, the Armenian Church said the aim of the canonisation ceremony near the capital Yerevan was to proclaim the martyrdom of those killed for their faith and homeland.

After the ceremony, bells tolled in Armenian churches around the world.

The beatification at the Echmiadzin Cathedral did not give the specific number of victims or their names.

It is the first time in 400 years that the Armenian Church has used the rite of canonisation.

The use of the word “genocide” to describe the killings is controversial. Pope Francis was rebuked recently by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for describing it as the “first genocide of the 20th Century”.

On Friday, a memorial service will be held in Turkey and its prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said the country will “share the pain” of Armenians.

However, he reiterated Turkey’s stance that the killings were not genocide.

“To reduce everything to a single word, to put responsibility through generalisations on the Turkish nation alone… is legally and morally problematic,” he said.

Mr Davutoglu did acknowledge the deportations, saying: “We once again respectfully remember and share the pain of grandchildren and children of Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives during deportation in 1915.”

What happened in 1915?

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, whose empire was disintegrating.

Many of the victims were civilians deported to barren desert regions where they died of starvation and thirst. Thousands also died in massacres.

Armenia says up to 1.5 million people were killed. Turkey says the number of deaths was much smaller.

Most non-Turkish scholars of the events regard them as genocide – as do more than 20 states, including France, Germany, Canada and Russia, and various international bodies including the European Parliament.

Turkey rejects the term genocide, maintaining that many of the dead were killed in clashes during World War One, and that many ethnic Turks also suffered in the conflict.

German Chancellor, President Snub Gallipoli; President Opts for Genocide Commemoration

April 17, 2015 By administrator

German President Joachim Gauck

BERLIN—Ankara has invited more than a hundred leaders to join commemorations of the Battle of Gallipoli this year on April 24, in an attempt to overshadow the commemorations of the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The German government has announced that it will only be sending its Secretary of Defense Markus Grübel to the Gallipoli commemorations, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Joachim Gauck indicated they would not participate in the event, with President Gauck signaling that he will be attending commemorations of the Armenian Genocide in Berlin on April 24 instead.

Until now, Turkey has traditionally commemorated the Battle of Gallipoli on March 18. Remembering the Gallipoli Campaign has never been scheduled for April 24 until this year, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) decided to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign on April 24, the same day that Armenians will mourn the mass killings of their ancestors during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, in 1915.

Rather than visit Turkey as part of the Gallipoli commemorations, President Gauck has instead chosen to stay in Berlin to participate in the 100th anniversary commemorative events for the Armenian Genocide. Gauck will attend the spiritual ceremony being organized at the Berlin Oberpfarr and Dom Church and will make a speech to commemorate the tragic events that took place against the Armenians under Ottoman rule.

It has not yet been determined whether Gauck will call the Armenian Genocide by name. The statement released by the German Presidency says, “Joining the ceremony to be held in Berlin, the German President will commemorate the grief that Armenians and other Christian minorities passed through in the Ottoman Empire.” This will make Gauck the first German president to join any such event commemorating the Armenian Genocide.

German Jewish leader urges government to recognize Armenian Genocide

April 17, 2015 By administrator

The Central Council of Jews in Germany has called on the German government to recognize the Armenian Genocide, the Council’s website reported.

“One hundred years ago, in the government of the Ottoman Empire ordered the deportation of one million Armenians. They were murdered directly, or died of starvation and dehydration in the desert,“ Central Council President Josef Schuster told the newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’. He added: “These terrible events should be called what they were: a genocide.”

Schuster said the Armenian genocide later served Adolf Hitler and his Nazis as a blueprint for the Holocaust.

Turkey exiles German journalist for Genocide article

April 6, 2015 By administrator

The Turkish authorities have exiled a German photojournalist who traveled to the country to prepare an article on the Armenian Genocide.

Andy Spyra, who works for the publication Der Spiegel, was forced to return from the airport over alleged links to the Islamic State, the Turkish Radikal reports.

He had earlier been to the country on a visit.

Arriving at the Turkish airport on March 28, Spyra was first arrested and searched; an intervention by the German Embassy appeared to be of no help in terms of preventing the exile.

The photo journalist admitted that he had left for Turkey for preparing a material about the Genocide and cited his previous records as evidence that might have struck the corresponding authorities’ attention.

Armenians call for German apology on genocide issue

April 4, 2015 By administrator

Germany’s politicians have debated the question of whether the Armenian Genocide should be referred to as such. Shortly before the 100th anniversary of the massacre, the discussion has entered a new round.

On April 24, the world will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide. But instead of a proper commemoration in the Bundestag, there is controversy.

On the day of the anniversary later this month, the German parliament will devote an hour to the debate over the crimes committed against Armenian Christians in the former Ottoman Empire. In place of cross-party unity, dissent is expected to prevail. Report DW

The Greens and the Left Party are in favor of recognizing the massacre, which took place from 1915 to 1916, as genocide. But that’s just what the governing coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) want to prevent – likely over the fear that such a decision would lead to a deep freeze in diplomatic relations with Turkey. Ankara has steadfastly rejected any acknowledgment of the past events as genocide.

“I, personally, am disappointed that there seems to be a critical lack of courage when it comes to saying what really happened,” said SPD politician Dietmar Nietan, in a recent interview with the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel newspaper.

‘An apology would be enough’

Descendants of massacre survivors have now called on the government to do just that. “An apology would be enough,” Ergün Ayik, head of the Surp Giragos Church Foundation in southern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, told the news agency dpa. The Surp Giragos Church is the largest Armenian church in the Middle East.

Armenian historian Ashot Hayruni, a professor at the Yerevan State University, also thinks Germany has a duty. “It’s important for the German Parliament to recognize the genocide as such, and condemn it,” he said, adding that the government should also actively influence Turkey to relent and make the same decision.

Many representatives of German civil society have condemned the government’s continued reluctance to recognize the genocide by name. “Even ignorance can be meaningful,” said Shermin Langhoff, the director of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, speaking to the Tagesspiegel. Langhoff, who has dedicated a special series of programs at the theater to the memory of the genocide, believes the Bundestag’s behavior is fatal and will leave open “a major gap in Europe’s cultural memory.”

Markus Meckel has called for clarity from the German government

Markus Meckel, a civil rights activist from the former East Germany and a former SPD member of parliament, feels as if the current debate has been pushed back a decade. The Bundestag first dealt with the genocide question in 2005, and even back then the Turkey factor prevented the government from adopting a resolution.

After much back and forth, it was decided that Germans should apologize for the “inglorious actions of the German Empire” – more was not possible at that time. Even today, according to Meckel, the Bundestag is threatening to stop short. “Anyone who denies the term [genocide] essentially minimizes the disaster and the suffering,” he said.

The Germans knew everything

The involvement of the German Empire in the deportation of Armenians has long been considered a fact by historians. What has remained controversial, however, was the extent to which Germans were involved. Were they witnesses – or complicit?

According to estimates, anywhere from 300,000 to 1.5 million Armenians died in the genocide. In Armenia, the catastrophe is known as “aghet” – and is definitively categorized as genocide. In Turkey, however, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, the suffering of those days is still officially considered “war-induced displacement and safety measures.” Casualty figures are also disputed by Turkey, which has prevented reconciliation between the two countries.

But Christin Pschichholz, a historian at the University of Potsdam, doesn’t mince words. “The German government was fully aware of the policy of extermination of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire,” she said, after reviewing documents from Germany’s Foreign Office. Death marches, executions and forced labor – German diplomats meticulously recorded everything that was going on around them at the time.

“The conclusion that between the years 1915 and 1918 a genocide took place on the territory of the Ottoman Empire has been known by the German government for the last 100 years,” said Rolf Hosfeld of the House of Lepsius Organization, which runs a genocide studies program together with the university.

Germany doesn’t want to jeopardize reconciliation

Bu that knowledge is not reflected in action. Government representatives have always avoided the use of the word genocide in connection with Armenia, instead using the terms “massacre” and “expulsion.”

During an inquiry by the Left Party in the Bundestag in February, the government once again fell back on this language. The stated reason: Germany does not want to jeopardize reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey. The conceptual framing of the massacre, according to the official line, should be left to the academics.

Armenia, along with more than 20 other countries, has recognized the events as genocide under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948. About a year ago, then prime minister and current Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke his country’s decades-long silence and apologized to the victims and their descendants, speaking of “inhuman consequences” that led to the expulsion of the Armenians. He did not, however, speak of genocide.

In deference to Turkey

Meanwhile, all eyes will be on the official commemoration on April 24 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. And also on the German delegation that will travel to Armenia to mark the anniversary.

Here, too, it seems Germany has deferred to Turkish sensibilities and will send only a small delegation. DW has found out that the government’s human rights commissioner, Christoph Strässer, and Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth will travel to Yerevan.

Neither Chancellor Angela Merkel nor Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are planning to take part in an event which will see many other prominent world leaders – including French President Francois Hollande.

Cem Özdemir, co-chairman of Germany’s Green party, who traveled through Armenia last month, sharply criticized Germany’s behavior in the Tagesspiegel. “With false regard to Mr. Erdogan, the government is downplaying the Armenian Genocide,” he said. “Hardly a dignified response toward the victims and their descendants.”

Armenian genocide – German guilt?

Witness or accomplice? At a congress in Berlin, historians have been debating Germany’s role in the genocide of Armenians 100 years ago. New findings show that Germany’s complicity is greater than previously assumed. (06.03.2015)

Why they hated Us? Armenian genocide – German guilt?

March 8, 2015 By administrator

Respond By DR. Sylva Portoian

Germans vs. Armenians
Germans……I like to understand…?
Did we entered in their forest to hunt even a small bird…?
There are ample reasons for many to hate other nations…
Why Germans were against Us..?
I want to shout with all my genocided cells…
Through centuries of genocide…
That was commited for no reason against us…
Can any race hate Armenians … and Why? …By white Germans …!!!
We never invaded and killed and slayed …
We distributed arts everywhere by our gifted hands…
Despite all we did …and build for Turks
Their palaces and minarets.,…and… and… and…
They took our lives…our lands …our money …our arts…
Still they continue hating us…and Why…?
And why the germans …
Do Turks and Germans carry the same savage DNA…s…?

If you love a dog and care for her
She will be your friend … forever;
This proves that there are no beasts more than human race …
Shame on us …Shame …
Calling ourselves a human race…!
As we are worse than beasts …!!!

March 8, 2015
written instantly after hearing that Germans wanted to slay us like Turks…!

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DW report: Armenian genocide – German guilt?

March 6, 2015 By administrator

In the German Reichstag on September 29, 1916, the diplomat Gottlieb von Jagow had to give parliament an account of the terrible events in Turkey, then the Ottoman Empire. Report DW

It was about mass displacement and executions taking place in the eastern region of Anatolia. The German Empire was a colonial power there at the time and also an ally of the Ottoman government, which had previously initiated a mass persecution of Christian Armenians before the onset of World War I. “We did everything we could,” stated Jagow in defense of Germany’s passivity.

This silent acquiescence toward the mass murders has been the subject of the International Historians Congress in Berlin.

Historians see the German Empire’s involvement in the deportation of Armenians as a proven fact. However, the part the Germans played is still not clear. Were they mere witnesses, or were they actually accomplices?

Depending on estimates, 300,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turks. and refer to it as genocide. Yet in modern-day Turkey, the state that replaced the Ottoman Empire, the human suffering of that era is still officially seen as “a war–related dislocation and security measure.” The number of victims is still a matter of dispute in Turkey, making reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia difficult.

The 160 historians in Berlin were focused on Germany’s complicity in the Armenians’ suffering. According to the Armenian historian Ashot Hayruni from the State University of Yerevan, the Germans are seen as accomplices because of their silence and cold indifference.

The German government just stood by and watched as the young Turkish government expelled Armenians from Turkey to the deserts of Mesopotamia, a region now in modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and Syria. And Germans claimed that they did not want to interfere, even though they were very well-informed.

Historian Christin Pschichholz from the University of Potsam has no doubts. After having read files at the German Foreign Ministry, she concludes that, “the German government had extensive information about the destructive policies regarding the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire. Death marches, executions and forced labor: German diplomats painstakingly took note of everything happening around them at that time.

Historical witnesses were quite aware of the atrocities, as illustrated by a dispatch sent on July 7, 1915 by the German Ambassador in Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the Imperial Chancellor. It said, “it is the declared intention of the government [meaning the Turkish government] to destroy the Armenian race in the Turkish Empire.”

Historian Rolf Holsfeld at Lepsiushaus, a highly regarded research institute in Potsdam, says, “the statement that genocide took place on Ottoman territory in 1915 and 1916 has been officially known to the German government for over 100 years. ”

A German military mission was posted to the Ottoman Empire at the time of the genocide

The way Germany handles the subject of the Armenian genocide does not directly reflect on Germany’s complicity at that time. German government officials have always avoided using the word genocide when speaking of Armenia. Instead, they speak of massacre and dislocation.

In February 2015, the Linkspartei, German’s far-left party, asked parliament about the use of terms regarding the persecuted Armenians in Turkey and the government decided to continue using the same terminology. The reason given was that it did not want to jeopardize Turkish-Armenian reconciliation. The German government’s policy: categorizations should be left to academia.

Armenia, together with more than 20 other countries, and the majority of the historians at the Berlin convention have classified the events as genocide, in accordance with the UN Genocide Convention of 1948.

About a year ago, the former Premier and now President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, broke the decade-old silence of Turkish officials on this subject. He apologized to the victims and their descendants and spoke of the “inhuman consequences” of the Armenians’ expulsion. He did not speak of genocide.

Former East German civil rights activist and former member of parliament for the Social Democrats, Markus Meckel, was in the Bundestag when the Armenian issue was first discussed 10 years ago.

Even then, no resolution regarding Turkey could be adopted if it contained the word genocide. After a great deal of discussion, an ensuing paper stated that the Germans apologized for the “inglorious role” of the German Empire. It was not possible to say more. Even in communism, said Meckel, history was defined by politics.

Yet Germany could send an important political signal by recognizing the suffering of the Armenian people as genocide. He says, “Anyone who does not use this term is basically giving the suffering and the catastrophe a lesser meaning.”

Historian Ashot Hayruni from the State University of Yerevan thinks it is the German government’s obligation and says, “It is important that the German government adopts a decision in which the genocide is recognized and condemned as such.”

To Yerevan with a small German delegation

According to DW sources, the German parliament plans to remember the victims of the Armenian genocide with a debate. But there is little cause to believe that anything will change in an argument about remembrance culture.

Quite the contrary: now there is a dispute as to who will represent Germany at the main memorial service in Armenia on the 100th anniversary of the genocide on April 24 this year. The expulsion of the ethnic group began at Istanbul’s Haydarpasa station on April 24, 2015.

Until now, the German Foreign Ministry claims that it is still checking to see who will officially represent Germany in the Armenian capital.

Insiders are expecting that Germany’s reticence on this issue will be underscored by the absence of high-level politicians. It is possible that only the German ambassador will attend the service, whereas France will be represented by the president himself, Francois Hollande. Historian Jürgen Gottschlich has called this ‘scandalous.’

Turkey another German documentarian found dead on Lycian Way

August 29, 2014 By administrator

Bernd Girrbach, who worked for Germany’s ARD channel, was in Turkey to film a documentary on Lycian Way.

German documentary filmmaker Bernd Girrbach was found dead early Aug. 29 in Turkey after a two-day police search. report hurriyet dailynews

The 58-year-old filmmaker had begun walking on Lycian Way, located in the Fethiye district of Turkey’s Muğla province, on Aug. 26.

Girrbach, who worked for Germany’s ARD channel, was in Turkey to film a documentary on Lycian Way, a trekking path that attracts travelers from across the world. Girrbach was conducting the initial research for the documentary when he lost his way somewhere along the 540-kilometer walking path on the road between Ölüdeniz to Geyikbayırı. Girrbach sent a text message for help to his wife, Elke Girrbach, who was also in Fethiye. He could not be reached again on his phone, however.

Girrbach’s body was located through his mobile phone signal, which police tracked via two portable base stations, Ölüdeniz local police said.

August/29/2014