Israeli lawmakers debated on Monday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as “so-called genocide” but were warned by the Foreign Ministry about further damage to frayed relations with Turkey.
The issue has stirred deep emotions in Israel, where some legislators have said the Jewish people, who suffered six million dead in the Nazi Holocaust, have a moral obligation to identify with the Armenian tragedy, even at the risk of a Turkish backlash. No decision was taken by parliament's Education and Culture Committee, which said it would hold another session at a future date.
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A bill which would criminalize the denial of allegations of a supposed 1915 'genocide' against Armenians was dropped by the French senate before it was taken to a vote.
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