A German court has banned the activities of a political party conducting a campaign against the Armenian Genocide recognition, DHA reports.

The party, Union of German Democrats, was founded by two Turkish businessmen and two Turkish lawyers from the city Cologne.

According to Aydinlik, a similarity with the right-wing populist party’s logo AfD (Alternative for Germany) was cited as a reason for moving on to close down the political force.

The German Bundestag adopted the historic resolution to recognize the 1915 genocide against the Christian minorities of Ottoman Turkey on June 2, 2016.