Turkey denounces Israel’s ‘political’ recognition of Armenian genocide

Turkey lashes out at Israel after it recognized massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, branding it a “political” decision to cover its own alleged crimes.

“The Israeli government, which has systematically persecuted the Palestinian people before the eyes of the entire world and is being tried at the International Court of Justice on charges of committing genocide against the people of Gaza, is seeking to cover up its own crimes through the political decision it has adopted regarding the events of 1915,” says a foreign ministry statement.

Relations between Israel and Turkey have sharply deteriorated since the war in Gaza erupted after Palestinian terror group Hamas’s attacks on Israel in October 2023.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often criticized Israeli “terrorism” in Gaza and likened it to Nazi Germany.

“Turkey will continue to work resolutely to bring an end to Israel’s expansionist and destabilizing policies in the region,” the foreign ministry statement says.