Israel's recognition of the Armenian genocide unsettles Turkey and Azerbaijan

According to RFI English, Israel's parliament voted on the twenty-ninth of June to formally recognise the nineteen fifteen Armenian genocide, breaking with decades of official reticence on the issue. The move has unsettled Turkey and Azerbaijan, both of which reject that characterisation of the events. RFI spoke with three regional experts — a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, the director of a regional studies centre in Yerevan, and a professor at Bilgi University in Istanbul — to unpack the politics behind the vote and its wider fallout.

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