Haykakan Zhamanak: Istanbul-Armenian patriarch ‘grieved’ by Bundestag resolution

After the passage by the German Bundestag of the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian patriarche of Istanbul expressed the “nation’s deep grieves” over the move, the paper has learned.

In a letter addressed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Archbishop Aram Ateshiam blamed German legislators for “meddling into affairs not within their competences”.

“Such a wrong attitude by Germany is unacceptable,” he said, according to the paper.