Die Linke is the German Communist party. From the article:
Hakki Keskin, one of the members of the German communist party Die Linke denounces denial of the Armenian Genocide in 1915...It may be in our favor, but it is still politics and for political reasons: mostly power.
The comments of Keskin, who previously was the chairman of the Turkish central council of Germany, aroused indignation of the German Conservative, Socialist and Green parties' representatives.
In order to release Keskin from his post and to restore the image of Die Linke as a human rights protection organization, the party leaders Oskar Lafontaine and Grygor Gysi published a declaration on the issue of the Armenia Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. "The fact of extermination of the Armenian people by Ottoman Turkey's government is beyond doubt, and the resolution on this issue, adopted by Bundestag in 2005, underlies the position of Die Linke," the declaration says.
The events at the beginning of the last century are not characterized by the term "genocide" in the [Bundestag] resolution. However, it has a paragraph mentioning that international historian call this "The Armenian Genocide".
Source: Arka
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