The Germans, who have admirably confronted the terrible genocide in their own history, did the right thing in defying Mr. Erdogan’s threats. This time, it has pulled its ambassador from Berlin and threatened dire consequences over a resolution, passed overwhelmingly by the German Parliament on Thursday, declaring that the century-old massacre of Ottoman Armenians was a genocide. President Obama, who as a candidate in 2008 pledged to recognize the events of 1915 as a genocide, has failed to do so. Germany’s claims to the contrary, Turkish legislators huffed in a statement, are “based on biased, distorted and various subjective political motives.”No, it was a genocide, the first of the 20th century. PhotoIn what has become an almost annual exercise, Turkey has thrown a fit because someone has spoken the truth about its dark past.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2016 10:11 UTC