Leader of Israeli party Yesh Atid called on Israeli authorities to  recognize Armenian Genocide

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.