Die Linke: Calls for recognition of the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus

The vice president of the DIE LINKE party took a stance on the issue of recognizing the genocide of the Pontic Greeks in the most explicit, clear, and unambiguous manner possible Tobias Pflüger.

Speaking at a memorial event for the victims of the genocide, Mr. Pflüger stated that «the Turkish government must finally acknowledge the guilt of the Ottoman Empire and recognize and apologize for the genocide of the Pontic Greeks, but the German government and the German Bundestag must also explicitly and unequivocally acknowledge the complicity of the German Reich and apologize for it.’.

In fact, the vice president of the Leftist Party added that «the genocide of the Pontic Greeks It must be explicitly mentioned in a resolution of the German Bundestag».

Ο SYRIZA-PS Member of Parliament, Panagiotis Kouroumblis In a statement, he welcomes the historic decision by the German left-wing party Die Linke, which has taken up the cause of the genocide of the Pontic Greeks, demanding that the German federal government, on the one hand, apologize, and on the other hand, recognize the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks.