German Embassy In Ankara: Documents In German Archives Pertaining To Armenians Are Completely Open To Everybody

ANKARA - German Embassy in Ankara said on Thursday that the documents in German archives pertaining to Armenians were completely open to everybody.
The Embassy issued a statement and said, ''all German official documents belonging to the period before 1945 are open to researches without any restrictions.''
Emphasizing that this was particularly valid for the documents of German Foreign Ministry Political Archives Department, the statement said the documents had a particular importance as there had been intensive diplomatic and military relations between Germany and the Ottoman Empire being allies at those times and due to facilities to acquire information were well.
The statement said the files pertaining to the issue were open to everybody in Political Archives in Berlin.
The statement said all of those files were given to Armenia as microfiche in 1998, and that Turkey took a copy of it.