Germany angers Turkey with Armenian genocide resolution

Personally, sir, I think Turkey needs to be held accountable for the way they act in regards to the killings. Several years ago the author Elie Wiesel was going to speak about the Armenian genocide at a conference on genocide in history. He was informed by the Turkish government that if he did so they could not guarantee the safety of Jewish citizens. There is still a large amount of persecution of minority groups in Turkey, as seen with the treatment of the Kurds and Orthodox Christians. Also, the gesture is symbolic. There are no stipulations which allow for the bringing suits against Turkey via German courts. Turkey being held accountable for their actions in 1915 is equivalent to Japan being held accountable for the sexual slavery of Korean and European women in WWII. And I think it gives Armenians a sense of relief, a sense of being believed. The Western reports which came out at that time are horrific reading, and many of them are translated from the German and into English.

Nicholas Efstathiou - Understand it is horrific and Turkey continues to be less than accommodating to non-Turks or Muslim but this vote in no way helps those causes. Everyone is clear that Turkey is a NATO outlier and in my opinion should have never been in NATO.