JERUSALEM: The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognized the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, a move widely seen as a rebuke to Turkiye and a stark signal of the deepening rift between the two countries.Relations between Israel and Turkiye have sharply deteriorated since the war in Gaza erupted after Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas’s attacks on Israel in October 2023.“A historic decision: the Israeli government has unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s proposal to recognize the Armenian genocide,” the foreign ministry said.The cabinet’s decisio

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will ask the government to approve a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide on the basis of a ‘moral and historical duty,’ a move likely to…

The Israeli foreign minister is set to submit a draft proposal to the cabinet recognizing the 1915 events between the Ottoman Empire and Armenians as genocide, a move that could…