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By Amina Nazarli

Last Tuesday a sudden decision of the German Bundestag on the recognition of so called “Armenian genocide” allegedly committed by the Turks, became a kind of surprise for many, which, according to some experts, will deteriorate the Ankara-Berlin relations, taking their roots from the times of the Ottoman Empire.

Ankara's reaction was indeed very sharp, since the Turkish ambassador was immediately recalled from Berlin.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Saturday that Turkey would never accept charges that the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against Armenians in World War I, saying the accusations were being used as “blackmail” against Ankara.

“I am addressing the whole world. You may either like it or not. Our attitude on the Armenian issue is clear from the beginning. We will never accept the accusations of genocide.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in turn, tried to maximally smooth the political effect of the incident. “Although the two countries have different views on some issues, Turkey and Germany have strong relations,” she stressed.

Armenians say allegedly some 1.5 million of their people were killed in a “genocidal campaign” by Ottoman forces ordered by Minister of War Enver Pasha and other top officials to wipe them from Anatolia.

Ankara, in turn categorically, denies the term "genocide", insisting that the Turks and the Armenians both suffered in the clashes, when Armenians joined forces with invading Russian troops in the hope of carving out their own state.

Despite Armenians claims on the alleged genocide committed by Ottoman Empire, they are unable to provide any evidence of mass graves in Turkey. Moreover, Armenians repeatedly increased the number of victims up to 1.5 million.

Turkish presidential administration reported that Armenia must respond to Turkey's appeal of establishing a joint commission to investigate the 1915 events.

"Instead of adopting the resolution on the so-called Armenian genocide, Germany should've exerted pressure on Armenia concerning the establishment of a joint commission with Turkey," the administration told Trend on Wednesday.

"Turkey opened all its archives to investigate the 1915 events," said the administration adding that if Armenia has its archives, it must open them too.

The Turkish presidential administration stated that the fact that Armenia does not agree to establish a joint commission to investigate the 1915 events testifies that there was no "Armenian genocide".

Armenians always claimed that Turks, Muslims committed genocide against them and occupied their territories. Voicing to the whole world that they are one of the ancient nations, Armenians at the same time usually refer to the modern scientists.

Referring to the fictional genocide, maybe, they want to hide the real genocide committed in about the same period against Azerbaijanis. The March genocide of 1918 was committed by the Armenian terrorist organization Dashnaktsutyun in an effort to establish an Armenian state on Azerbaijani territory through destroying the local ethnic population.

Only in Baku about 20,000 Azerbaijani civilians including women, children and the elderly were brutally killed, while within a brief period of time many villages of Shamakhi, Guba, Lankaran, Salyan, and Mughan also suffered cruel treatments, which claimed the lives of other tens of thousands innocent people.

Unfortunately, Armenian grieve crimes against Azerbaijani people continued in the recent history. Armenians massacred the Azerbaijanis in Khojaly town in Nagorno-Karabakh on 26 February 1992, thus claiming the life of 613 civilians, including 106 women, 70 elderly, and 83 children, while total of 1,000 civilians were disabled.

However, Armenian claims are not limited to just this fictional “genocide”, but they also claim to all the land of their neighbors -- Azerbaijan and Georgia. Part of the land, where Armenia exists today is historical territories of Azerbaijan and Georgia.

For about a quarter of a century Armenia keeps 20 percent of native Azerbaijani land including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts under occupation. Despite the four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from these territories Armenia has not implemented them yet.

Taking advantage of the power and influence of the great powers, Armenians just want to pretend to life their true purpose -- claim to foreign territories.

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