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Anyone has the right to appeal to the court the question is whether the lawsuit has any prospects, international law expert, Vladimir Vardanyan said during a press conference, commenting on the Turkish lawyer’s appeal to German Constitutional Court to revoke the resolution on Armenian Genocide recognition by the Bundestag.

“One of the peculiarities of the German Constitutional justice system is that it has a rather high admission threshold for individual appeals and in this case in order to succeed, the individual has to prove that the document violates one of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and that the document doesn’t comply with the German Basic Law,” Vardanyan noted.

According to him, there is no such problem here as the resolution was adopted by the parliament. It doesn’t have a law degree and cannot have an impact on a person, moreover to violate any of his rights.
“I don’t see any judicial prospect in this process. I think the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany will express its position in the admission stage,” the expert said.

Concerning the fact of how to use the German recognition of the Armenian Genocide from the legal point of view, the expert noted, “I consider the fact of moving the responsibility from Turkey to Germany very dangerous. Of course, I don’t want to exclude any legal procedures concerning those German companies that benefited from the possessions of the victims during the genocide. Yet we shouldn’t move the target from Turkey to Germany”.