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Israeli MP Says That Tel Aviv Should Support Armenian Thesis When Turkey Harshly Criticized Israel |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009Nermin DURMAZ (JTW) - Turkey's attitude to Cast Lead operation caused disappointment in Israel, Zeev Elkin, a Likud party member said. According to the Pan-Armenian.net site Elkin said "Ankara's position has proved inevitability of the Armenian Genocide recognition. As to a Knesset resolution, the new parliament will start work on February 24 and Likud party stands a good chance to head it. We did not recognize the Armenian Genocide, and instead of support Turkey, we received harsh criticism from Turkey."
Israel's deputy foreign minister even said "Erdogan says that genocide is taking place in Gaza. We [Israel] will then recognize the Armenian-related events as genocide" although Mr. Erdogan has never used the word of genocide for the Israeli attacks against Gaza.
Turkey has strongly criticized the Cast Lead operation Israel launched in Gaza. In Gaza Operation more than 400 Palestinian children were killed by the Israeli troops.
Mr. Elkin's call to recognize the Armenian claims caused great reaction in Turkey. Some of the nationalist papers called Israeli MP Zeev Elkin as "blackmailer".
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sedat Laciner said "the recent shift in Israel's policy towards Turkey is not ethical. Israel has not supported Armenian claims till now. If they start to change their pro-Turkish Armenian policies due to the Gaza critics, they cannot explain the reason of this change". Laciner further argued that the Israeli and Jewish support for Turkish position should not be exaggerated because the Jewish support for Turkey in the Congress has decreased too much last year:
"We saw last year that many Jewish parliamentarians did support the Armenian lobby. The Jewish support never solved the Armenian issue in Turkish-American relations and the Armenian problem became a political card which has been used against Turkey like a blackmail instrument."
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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