While the German parliament has adopted a resolution that recognizes the " organized expulsion and destruction of the Armenians " , and states that " numerous independent historians , parliaments and international organizations " have recognized the event as genocide , the resolution does not state such itself . The resolution also contains an apology for Germany 's role in the Genocide ( The German Monarchy was an ally of Ottoman Turkey during World War I , and did not intervene despite ample evidence of a policy of extermination ) and calls on Turkey to examine its role in the ethnic cleansing
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Armenian Genocide
Armenians in Germany