GUL: “GERMANY IS LOOKING FOR A PARTNER IN GUILT”
TurkishPress.com
Press Review
Published: 6/20/2005
Speaking to journalists from Turkish daily Zaman, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul yesterday criticized the German Parliament’s adoption of a resolution denouncing a so-called massacre of Armenians during the Ottoman era. [...]. “The decision is full of mistakes. [...].The current German government is opposed to it, in particular German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.” He added that the decision was motivated by guilt about the Nazi Holocaust and that Germans were looking to share this guilt. /Milliyet/
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Press Review
Published: 6/20/2005
Speaking to journalists from Turkish daily Zaman, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul yesterday criticized the German Parliament’s adoption of a resolution denouncing a so-called massacre of Armenians during the Ottoman era. [...]. “The decision is full of mistakes. [...].The current German government is opposed to it, in particular German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.” He added that the decision was motivated by guilt about the Nazi Holocaust and that Germans were looking to share this guilt. /Milliyet/
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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