Austria recognizes and condemns Genocide against Armenians in Ottoman Turkey

 The Austrian Parliament passed a statement on April 22 condemning the Armenian Genocide and calling on Turkey to face its past. According to sources, all six factions of parliament came together and agreed on the statement, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tigran Balayan tweeted. 

"Austria Federal Parliament has just adopted a strong statement on #ArmGenocide100," Balayan posted. 

"Due to the historical responsibility, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was allied in the First World War with the Ottoman Empire, it is our duty to recognize the terrible events as genocide and condemn it," says the joint statement. The statement says "it is also the duty of Turkey to honestly face this dark and painful chapter of its past and acknowledge the crimes committed during the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians as genocide."