Ankara (Turkey), 30 June (LaPresse/AP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the Israeli proposal to recognise the violence perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians during the First World War as genocide. “We pay absolutely no attention to the slander against our country by this criminal network, which has the blood of 73,000 innocent people in Gaza on its hands, mostly children and women,” Erdogan said in a televised address following a meeting of the Turkish Council of Ministers. “Our history is free from genocide, massacres, oppression and colonialism,” he said. The Israeli Cabinet approved the proposal on Sunday, but it has yet to be passed by Parliament. On Tuesday, Erdogan drew attention to the Palestinian victims in Gaza.
Erdogan criticises Israel over recognition of the Armenian genocide
Ankara (Turkey), 30 June (LaPresse/AP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected the Israeli proposal to recognise the violence perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians during the First World War as genocide. “We pay absolutely no attention to the slander against our country by this criminal network, which has the blood of 73,000 innocent people in Gaza on its hands, mostly children and women,” Erdogan said in a televised address following a meeting of the Turkish Council of Ministers. “Our history is free from genocide, massacres, oppression and colonialism,” he said. The Israeli Cabinet approved the proposal on Sunday, but it has yet to be passed by Parliament. On Tuesday, Erdogan drew attention to the Palestinian victims in Gaza.
