Turkey’s biggest trade partner, Germany, recognised the Armenian genocide for the first time by attending the 100 year memorial ceremony amidst several other foreign leaders, on Friday.
French and Russian presidents, Francois Hollande and Vladimir Putin were also present at the memorial service, which involved placing flowers at a hilltop memorial near the Armenian capital of Yerevan, reports Reuters.
Germany’s parliament this week approved a resolution that acknowledged the Armenian genocide.
Turkey’s president, Tayyip Erdogan, offering condolences to the Armenian community for the loss of life, rejected the description of the killings as genocide.
The French president, referred to France’s acknowledgement of the Armenian genocide in 2001, as “an act of truth.”
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