pablo elias, thank you so much. the german foreign minister has called on the eu to stop turkey from setting up a base in syria. he was speaking at a meeting in the slovenian -- slovakian capital. there were calls to put turkey's eu' membership on hold. on the first day of the summit, the scene seems to have calmed. there is a fear to lose ankara's cooperation on the referee g crisis. the german government has denied it is distancing itself from a resolution that has angered turkey. in june the bundestag ruled that a killing was to be ruled as genocide. >> the foreign ministry and government spokesman wanted to set the record straight. reports that the government wanted to distance itself from parliament's resolution on the massacre of armenians a century ago was wrong. that is not the case. the german parliament has the right and opportunity to speak on any issue when it considers it right to do so. the government defends this summer right of the german parliament. he did point out that such a resolution is not leg