CDU/CSU ADVOCATE STUDY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT GERMAN SCHOOLS

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) of Germany have sent a letter to the Ministry of Education and Religion of the German federal lands proposing to include the history of the Armenian Genocide in the school curriculum, reported Tagesspiegel. "The Armenian Genocide during World War I directly related to the following banishment and tragedies in Europe and of course the Holocaust." According to the message, schools not always properly respond to Turkey erroneously teaching history to children. Two weeks ago the Bundestag adopted a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The resolution does not specify the events of 1915-1917 as "genocide", however the concept is underlies the very grounding of the resolution. Meanwhile, Armenia and most of the international community qualify the events of 1915-1917 as a genocide. From the point of view of Turkey the matter merely concerns the tragic consequences of the forced deportation imposed by the war. Meanwhile, the first federal Land of Brandenburg has included the Armenian Genocide in the curriculum.