On 2 June 2016 , the German Bundestag voted in favour of a motion jointly proposed by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) and the Green Party that officially recognised the events concerning the mass deportation and killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as a Genocide , in line with a similar decision taken by the European Parliament a year before . Prior to the decision , Prime Minister Yıldırım claimed that he had warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Germany would be undergoing a ' friendship test with Turkey ' during the vote and that such a decision would be irrational and detrimental to relations between the two countries
Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Binali Yıldırım