ArmInfo. The leader of the Israeli party Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid called on the Israeli authorities to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Moreover, according to Times of Israel, the party headed by him intends to introduce a corresponding bill to the Knesset. According to the deputy, besides this, Israel should help create an independent Kurdistan in Turkey. He also called on the Israeli authorities to reconsider political and economic relations with Ankara.
The given statement of the Israeli politician followed the words of the Turkish leader Erdogan that Israel is a terrorist state that destroys children. In this regard, Lapid said that it was not the Turkish leader, whose state during the Armenian Genocide was cutting children, to talk about morality. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a similar statement earlier, calling the speech of the Turkish leader "an attack against Israel". "It's not the leader of a country bombarding Kurds on its own territory, jailing journalists who help terrorists in Gaza and killing innocent people to take moral lessons," Netanyahu said. Ankara, through the mouth of Erdogan's spokesman, in response, accused Israel of "the centuries-old occupation of the lands of the Palestinian people."
All this was followed by the statement of US President Donald Trump about the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which Ankara reacted critically.