Deutsche welle reports that 1915 events can be called genocide, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
The newspaper states that ruling FRG parties have favoured that the crimes against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire be called genocide. Bundestag is to consider the issue in the coming days.
In his interview to the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung the minister said: "One could want to summarize what happened then in the term 'genocide,'
According to one of the German Social- Democratic Party leaders, he can understand perfectly well the reasons and feelings of those who are demanding the consolidation of the idea of "genocide" when speaking of the crimes committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. But he questioned whether a "charged political debate"would be helpful.