The move, which also must be approved by parliament, reflects the increasingly deteriorating relations between Israel and Turkey.
The mass killings are still subject to institutionalized “denial and minimization,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said in a comment.
A manipulative rewriting of history, mainly by the Turkish government, he says, adding that it is “never too late to do the right thing.”
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million people were murdered in massacres in the Ottoman Empire beginning during World War I. The majority were Armenians, but other Christian minorities were also among the victims.
