“This isn’t retaliation for Turkey’s overt hostility, horrific rhetoric and hostile actions toward Israel under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said of the cabinet’s decision to recognize the Armenian genocide. “But the fact that Turkey promotes false narratives about Israel doesn’t grant it immunity from the historical truth.” Those harsh words are in fact true, and the cabinet did the right thing by recognizing the genocide.
