German Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the stand advocating the use of the "genocide" term when describing the mass killings of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago. Deutsche Welle reports that Angela Merkel made such a statement at the meeting of the CDU/CSU on April 21.
In the meantime, the source says that Merkel thinks Berlin's use of the term may have a negative impact on normalization between Armenia and Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire.
Deutsche Welle reports that the CDU/CSU alliance and the Social Democratic Party of Germany are going to adopt a resolution on the occasion of the centenary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman rule. The resolution says that "the fate of the Armenians during World War One serves as an example of the history of mass murders, ethnic cleansings, expulsions and genocides during the 20th century." So, the ruling coalition links the Armenians' fate with the "genocide" term but fails to directly describe the killings of Armenians 100 years ago as genocide.