All around the globe the Armenian Diaspora has been campaigning in their respective countries to recognise the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide but the successor state of the perpetrator – Turkey – continues labelling it as “so-called“ genocide. After many years of hesitation, Germany became the 25th country to officially adopt a resolution to recognise the Armenian Genocide in 2016. How has this step impacted the perspectives of the Armenian community in Germany?
Author: Armenuhi Nikoghosyan
Armenuhi Nikoghosyan works at Hrant Dink Foundation as a project coordinator in Armenia, focusing on dialogue establishment between the societies of Armenia and Turkey. She is also a researcher at the Oral History Center at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, and her research covers interactions between people of Armenia and Turkey as well as genocide memory mapping in Armenia.
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