Anatolian Armenians

The German Foreign Ministry has cancelled a long-planned concert by the Dresden Sinfoniker orchestra in Istanbul on Nov. 13 that was to commemorate the killings of Armenians in 1915 after protests by Ankara, orchestra director Markus Rindt said on Oct. 26. 

Alexander S. Neu, one of the German parliamentarians who recently visited German troops based at Turkey's İncirlik air base after Ankara granted permission, has said he was disappointed to not be able to meet Turkish government officials during the trip. 

​A German lawmaker, who was among the group of parliamentarians visiting German troops at the Turkish air base İncirlik after a ban was recently lifted, has said the visit paved the way for the German Parliament to vote to extend the deployment of nearly 240 German troops stationed at the base. 

Seven German lawmakers visited the İncirlik air base lying close to Syria on Oct. 5 to inspect German troops in a highly sensitive visit held up for months due to a diplomatic row.

Ankara had barred the group from visiting İncirlik in southern Turkey after the Bundestag passed a bill that labeled the World War I-era killing of Anatolian Armenians as "genocide."

German parliamentarians arrived in Ankara on Oct. 4 to pay a visit to the İncirlik Air Base, where German troops are stationed in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after a row between Turkey and Germany over the parliamentarians' visit. 

The Turkish government will permit German lawmakers visit to the İncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana in October following a request from Berlin, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said Sept. 19.

The Turkish government has allowed German lawmakers visit to the İncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana in October upon their request, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Sept. 19.

Ankara has given permission for German lawmakers to pay a visit to Turkey's İncirlik Air Base, after previously refusing access amid a row over a bill in the German Bundestag labeling the World War I-era killing of Anatolian Armenians as "genocide."

Two members of the Turkish parliament have penned joint letters addressed to Kati Piri, rapporteur for Turkey at the European Parliament, and Manolis Kefalogiannis, the co-chair of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, expressing "sadness" over what they called "falling into the trap of politicizing a painful period in history," in regards to the mass killing of Anatolian Armenians durin

A Russian opposition leader, Sergei Mironov, said on Nov. 25 that his party had submitted a bill to the Russian parliament on holding to account anyone who denies that the 1915 killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire "was genocide."