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By Gunay Camal

Much of modern geopolitics seems to be following the plot from Hollywood movies, with many countries keeping blind eye to the truth and supporting the fictions hoping that they will get away with this attitude. So their governments and parliaments distort the history not knowing for the sake of what.

Germany became the latest country who joined the list of countries who declared the 1915 events in the Ottoman Empire as the "Armenian genocide". The vote was almost unanimous in supporting the resolution with just one MP voting against and another abstaining.

The resolution recognizing the deaths of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as genocide drew a fierce reaction from Ankara.

Azerbaijan also immediately condemned the German parliament's unfair and biased resolution, which is based on the historical lie.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced the recall of Turkish ambassador to Berlin. “We do not hesitate to take necessary steps, not even a second after seeing the resolution text comprehensively,” he said at an event in Ankara.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu posted: “The way [for those] to close dark pages in their histories is not to defame the history of other countries through parliamentary resolution”.

The resolution also triggered tensions with Germany's roughly 3.5 million-strong Turkish community. Over a thousand Turks protested against the resolution on Saturday in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has rightly commented that Turcophobia and Islamophobia reaching to the level of racism may be among the reasons behind this policy of Germany.

Only one MP Bettina Kudla, representing the Christian-Democratic Union party, was wise enough to realize that parliaments are not courts or institutions of historical research.

Kudla stated that the Bundestag is not tasked with giving a historical assessment of the events that occurred in other countries. This should make the affected country, in this particular case - Turkey, she said.

Ankara agrees that many Armenians died in fighting and the deportation process between 1915 and 1917 during World War I, putting its estimate at 300,000 casualties.

Turkey objects to the presentation of the incidents as "genocide," but describes the events of 1915 as a tragedy for both sides, and repeatedly voiced readiness to open historical achieves.

But, the Armenian resolution has illustrated a biased attitude of Europe, and double standards that predominates in Europe in relation to the history. While 11 of the European Union’s 28 members have recognized the Armenian killings as genocide despite the falsified facts and over a hundred years left from it, these countries turn blind eye to the Khojaly massacre that took place only 22 years ago.

Baku has announced that a so-called ‘Armenian genocide’ resolution adopted by the German Bundestag on June 2 is prejudiced and biased, assessing it as another manifestation of double standards.

“The German parliament adopted a resolution on falsified historical issue that allegedly took place more than a century ago. This is a vivid example of double standards. This step is aimed at confusing the German society and the international community,” the Foreign Ministry announced.

Novruz Mammadov, deputy head of Azerbaijani presidential administration, chief of the administration's foreign relations department, in turn reminded that such steps taken in the current situation are leading to further worsening of international relations.

"Such steps in no way serve to strengthening of peace, security and stability," said Mammadov. "From this point of view, I'd like to say that surely such a policy, which is being currently pursued, is wrong."

"I think the fundamentals of such a policy were laid with the adoption of the Section 907 against Azerbaijan by the US Congress in the early 90s, and that was also ridiculous," he added.

Novruz Mammadov said that the events of a hundred years ago must be studied by historians.

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