Armenian protesters demand Israel recognize genocide by Turks

Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST

Oct. 22, 2007

Jerusalem’s tiny Armenian community held banners and flags at a
protest Monday to demand that Israel recognize the mass killings of
ethnic Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago as genocide.

About 100 people stood outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem,
singing songs in Armenian and holding banners. A group of teenage
girls stood in school uniforms alongside an elderly woman holding a
sign that read, "I am a survivor," in English and Hebrew, and others
waved colorful flags.

Israel has become a player in the US debate. Armenians expect Israel
to sympathize with their demands, because of the Jewish state was
built in the shadow of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. But Turkey
has threatened to cool its ties with Israel if it doesn’t use its
influence in Washington to quell the campaign. Turkey is one of
Israel’s few Muslim allies.

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