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Dozens Celebrate Bundestag’s Decision to Recognize Armenian Genocide

© REUTERS / Hannibal HanschkeSupporters holds Armenian flags in front of the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2016
Supporters holds Armenian flags in front of the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Dozens of people gathered outside the German parliament in Berlin on Thursday to celebrate the decision by German lawmakers to recognize the Armenian genocide.

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Bundestag Recognizes Ottoman Crimes Against Armenians in 1915 as Genocide
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The resolution recognizing the 1915-1916 genocide by the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey, was passed by a landslide vote with only one lawmaker opposing.

Footage from a central square in front of the Bundestag showed people dancing in a circle. The mob spotted flags of Armenia, Greece and YPG, a Kurdish militia in Syria deemed terrorists by Ankara.

The vote is likely to strain relations between Germany and Turkey, which rejects the labelling of World War I-era killings as genocide, at the time of intensive EU-Ankara talks on how to curb the migrant flow to Europe.

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