Turkey seeks Germany’s aid in Genocide denial efforts.

Turkey’s Minister for European Affairs Egemen Bagish has called upon Germany to assist the country in settling its historical dispute with France over the Armenian Genocide.

Speaking to the German publication Welt, the Turkish official said he has applied to the German authorities for assistance.

“The German archives should contain documents on the 1915 events,” he said, appealing to Berlin to open its archives to historians.

Bagish said he had seen the documents whcih “prove that what happened in the Ottoman Empire was a civil war, not an attempt to annihilate the Armenians.”

It comes after the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial. The country’s Constitutional Court is now debating the constitutionality of the draft.

Switzerland was recently reported to be planning to launch a probe against Bagish for denying the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.