Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Völkermord an den Armeniern und anderen christlichen Minderheiten in den Jahren 1915 und 1916
German Bundestag (motion of the CDU/CSU, SPD and Green parliamentary groups)31 May 2016
A motion laid before the German Bundestag in 2016 that describes the deportation and killing of Armenians and other Christians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and 1916 as genocide and regrets the part played by the German Empire.
The text is a motion of three parliamentary groups dated 31 May 2016. Its title uses the word Völkermord, genocide. It names Aramean, Assyrian and Chaldean Christians beside the Armenians, and says that the German Empire, as the chief military ally of the Ottoman Empire, did not try to stop what its own diplomats and missionaries reported. It is cited in the Destruction of the Armenian and Assyrian Christians only for the use of the term.
Cited in
- 1915 to 1916, firm date