10/22 JPost: Armenian protesters demand Israel recognize genocide by Turks

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.

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380625140&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull