Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/1/2016

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A proposal for Germany to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide is being presented in the Bundestag tomorrow. Ahead of the vote, both Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Germany with consequences if it recognizes the genocide. Neither Chancellor Merkel nor Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel will be present for the vote.

In other news, an Iraqi man who gained asylum in Austria by professing to be a homosexual has been jailed for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in a swimming pool. There is no word on whether the man mistook the pre-pubescent girl for a boy.…

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