T\u00fcrkiye is indebted to people oppressed by Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan said while speaking at an event organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the same day the Israeli government approved the recognition of the so-called\u00a0Armenian\u00a0genocide, Erdo\u011fan told fellow party members at the event in Sakarya that they would hold those behind the Gaza genocide to account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognized the World War I \u201cgenocide,\u201d in an apparent rebuke to T\u00fcrkiye after stalling similar efforts for recognition for years. The Netanyahu administration, which is behind the war crimes in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands since 2023 and practically razed the Palestinian enclave to the ground, had hinted earlier at the issue. In almost every instance Erdo\u011fan spoke about the crimes of Netanyahu and \u201chis network of murderers,\u201d Netanyahu and his associates were quick to bring up what they called the \u201cgenocide\u201d against Kurds and Armenians by T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A historic decision: the Israeli government has unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s proposal to recognize the Armenian genocide,” Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. The Cabinet’s decision must still be ratified by Parliament. Saar said at the Cabinet meeting that the \u201cgenocide\u201d has been subject to \u201cdenial and minimization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Successive Israeli governments had avoided formally recognizing the so-called genocide, in part to preserve relations with T\u00fcrkiye, once one of Israel’s closest strategic partners in the region. Under Erdo\u011fan, however, the relations on the brink of revival after a period of tensions, again, under Erdo\u011fan, took an irreversible hit. The Turkish leader garnered global admiration for standing against Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians and often likened Netanyahu to Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust. Saar insisted that the recognition was not an act of retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issue of the so-called genocide has deeply affected possible ties between T\u00fcrkiye and Armenia. A strong Armenian lobby touted the incidents in the Ottoman territories between 1915 and 1917, which involved the relocation of Armenians en masse as genocide. T\u00fcrkiye rejects the accusations although it has acknowledged that Armenians, alongside Turks, died during the period. T\u00fcrkiye also disputes the account that 1.5 million Armenians died and states that the actual death toll, often linked to diseases and other factors, was far below this figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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