The education committee began discussing a proposal to mark April 24, the day when Turkish mass killings of Armenians started in 1915, as a memorial day for "the massacre of the Armenian people."
A similar proposal was rejected by parliament in 2007, when ties between Israel and Turkey were warm.
But relations plunged into deep crisis last year when Israeli forces killed nine Turks in a raid on a Turkish ferry, part of an activist flotilla seeking to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kinsmen died in orchestrated killings during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.
But the Turkish government strongly denies this, saying 300,000 Armenians and as many Turks were killed in civil conflict when the Christian Armenians, backed by Russia, rose up against the Ottoman Empire.
France's lower house voted last week to criminalise the denial of genocide in Armenia, prompting Turkey to suspend political and military co-operation.
alcohol poisoning alcohol poisoning mark ingram mark ingram between two ferns joe the plumber weather colorado springs
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.