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Germany takes step to soothe Turkey?s ire over Armenia vote
BERLIN: Germany on Friday reiterated that a parliamentary resolution on Turkey’s World War I-era massacre of Armenians was **n-binding but denied it was distancing itself from the vote to appease Ankara.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said it had always been clear that the June vote calling the Ottoman-era mass killing a "ge**cide" had ** legally binding character, a question he said was of great interest to Ankara. But Seibert rejected as "misleading and wrong" a report by news site Spiegel Online that, by reiterating this point, Merkel’s government was seeking to appease Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "There is a false assertion that the German government wants to distance itself from the resolution of the Bundestag. This is absolutely **t true," he said. He added that parliament, as a sovereign body, had the right to issue statements on political issues of its choice, "even if they are **t legally binding, as it says on its website". A Spiegel reporter fired back, tweeting that Seibert "is doing exactly what it says in the report which he is denying: explicitly pointing out that the resolution is **n-binding". Already tense relations between Berlin and Ankara took a **se-dive after the vote three months ago. Erdogan angrily charged that the 11 German lawmakers with Turkish roots who backed it should undergo "blood tests" to see "what kind of Turks they are". Turkey has since then denied German lawmakers the right to visit their national troops on the Nato air base of Incirlik, used by Western allies to fight Jihadists in Syria. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Germany takes step to soothe Turkey?s ire over Armenia vote || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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