Istanbul Vicar’s ‘Deep Regret’ for Bundestag Vote Angers Turkish-Armenians

Atesyan and Erdogan (Photo: aljazeera.com.tr)

ISTANBUL (Armenian Weekly)””Archbishop Aram Atesyan, the General Vicar of the Armenian Patriarch in Turkey, sent a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slamming the German Parliament’s June 2 adoption of an Armenian Genocide resolution, saying that the Bundestag’s decision “about the events happened during the tragic times of World War I caused regret in our nation.”