“A political decision to cover up your crimes.” Türkiye attacks Israel after it recognized the “Armenian genocide” | news

The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognized what it called the “Armenian Genocide” in 1915 during World War I, while Turkey denounced the move, considering the decision “political” and aimed at covering up the “crimes” of Tel Aviv.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “In a historic decision, the Israeli government unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s proposal to recognize the Armenian Genocide.”

The Israeli Cabinet’s decision, which indicates the increasing scale of the dispute with Türkiye, still needs to be approved by Parliament (the Knesset) to become effective.

On the other hand, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said – in a statement – that “the Israeli government, which practices systematic persecution against the Palestinian people in front of the entire world, and is being tried before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, aims, through the political decision it adopted regarding the events of 1915, to cover up its crimes.”

She pointed out that the Israeli decision represents a bad faith attempt that ignores legal and historical facts, and reveals the extent of the dilemma facing Netanyahu and his partners, against whom arrest warrants have been issued as part of the investigation conducted by the International Criminal Court regarding crimes committed against the Palestinians.

The ministry pointed out that Turkey will continue to work decisively to put an end to Israel’s expansionist and destabilizing policies in the region, and to ensure that the Netanyahu government is brought to justice for the crimes it committed against civilians, especially the Palestinian people.

Türkiye has previously rejected accusations of “genocide against the Armenians” in 1915 during the Ottoman Empire, and says that what happened was an ethnic war between the Turks and the Armenians.

It considers that the numbers that talk about one million or 1.5 million Armenian dead are greatly exaggerated, stressing that the Turkish side also lost thousands of deaths at the hands of the Armenians as a result of the war that broke out on the sidelines of World War I at that time.

Since the start of the Israeli war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the political crisis has escalated between Tel Aviv and Ankara, which describes Israel as a “terrorist state that kills civilians.”

In several statements, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that Netanyahu’s government represents the most dangerous threat to the security of the Middle East, and described it as “bloodthirsty,” which sparked Israel’s anger.