After the French & Swiss laws prohibiting the Denial of Armenian Genocide, last week Berlin-Brandenburg Bundesland adopted a similar law prohibiting denial of the Armenian Genocide (paragraph 189).
Ironically, the Talaat Pasha rally gave a totally negative effect
The compelete story as reported in
Defacto March 20, 2006 , reads :
LAW ON GUILT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL ADOPTED IN BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
In Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Bundesland adopted a law on guilt of the Armenian Genocide denial (paragraph 189). From now on it is prohibited to call ?a lie? the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in the territory, Regnum reports.
It is noteworthy that on the very day Turks were going to hold a demonstration in Berlin to commemorate Talaat Pasha, however, because of the resolution adopted, police thoroughly checked all the posters and transparencies in order to register facts of the Genocide denial.
Berlin-Brandenburg is the first in Germany and the second in Europe region in the number of Turks (the first is in Istanbul). Over 1 million Turks live only in Berlin. So, as the Armenian Turkologists note, Germany, the main Turkey?s ally in the EU, has confirmed its position on the resolution adopted by the Bundestag, which can bring about a chain reaction everywhere in the EU.