The 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey are widely recognized as genocide in Israel, an Israeli cabinet minister said after visiting the genocide memorial in Yerevan on Friday.
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein also drew parallels between the Jewish Holocaust and the World War One-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians, which many historians consider the first genocide of the 20th century.
"True, there is no state law [in Israel recognizing the genocide,]" Edelstein told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). "But I think that in Israel, in view of … our common history and some similar elements and moments, you will hardly find people who will deny the genocide, who will say, like we unfortunately hear, that all this is fabrications and lies."
Armenian News
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