“First you burn the Jews in ovens and then you come and accuse the Turkish people of genocide,” said Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag in a reaction to a vote by the Budestag, the German parliament, of a resolution recognizing the 1915 Armenian genocide, when the Ottoman Empire — the precursor state to Turkey — murdered over 1 million Armenian Christians.
Bekir Bozdag
“Look back first at your own history… in our history, there is nothing that we can be ashamed of,” the minister said. Besides Germany, 20 countries in the world, including France and Russia, currently recognize the Armenian genocide.
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