Zionist Union MK Itzhik Shmuli slammed the Foreign Ministry after it recommended against recognizing the Armenian genocide due to the fear that it would help Erdogan win the upcoming Turkish elections.
"The Foreign Ministry's explanation is false and ridiculous," said Shmuley. "If the foreign ministries around the world would have acted so cowardly in their recognition of the Jewish Holocaust, they would have recommended removing their recognition, God forbid, of our tragedy. "
"The prime minister of the Jewish state does not have to dance according to Erdogan's flute and be an active partner in the denial of the people who were massacred in concentration camps and death marches, but to do what it should have done long ago - recognition of the historical crime."