news agency SANA reported<\/a> that\n the People’s Council approved the motion without a single vote against \nit, describing the genocide as \u201cone of the most atrocious crimes against\n humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lawmakers also called on the international community to condemn the mass killings of Armenians as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tSabbagh added that heinous crimes against people will not be \nforgotten as time goes by, particularly taking into account that \nneo-Ottomanism uses the same criminal styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tHe called on the international community to shoulder its \nhumanitarian, ethical and political responsibility in recognizing this \ncrime, and not to deny it while strongly condemning it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tArmenia says 1.5 million were killed under the Ottoman Empire, the \nforerunner of modern-day Turkey, from 1915 to 1917, and that the mass \nkillings were an effort to wipe out the Christian ethnic group and thus \namount to genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tTurkey, in return, puts the number far lower and adamantly rejects \nthe term genocide, saying that Turks also died in what it considers \nfighting as part of World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tThe move comes amid heightened tensions between Syria and Turkey over\n Idlib and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s threats of military \nescalation there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tEarlier on Wednesday, Erdogan said Turkey’s military would strike \nSyrian army forces by air or ground anywhere in Syria if another Turkish\n soldier was hurt as Syrian government troops continue to make \nsignificant gains in battles against foreign-backed terrorists in Idlib \nprovince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tThe Turkish president said Ankara was determined to push Syrian \ngovernment forces beyond Turkish observation posts in Idlib by the end \nof this month, urging allied militants not to give government forces an \nexcuse to attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tAn official at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates\n dismissed Erdogan\u2019s threats as hollow, stressing that they have been \nmade by someone detached from realities on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\t\t\tThe source added that such statements are simply made by someone, who\n does not understand changing developments, and threatens to attack \nSyrian Arab Army soldiers after the Turkish army and their proxies \nsuffered a heavy blow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The diplomat further highlighted that the Syrian government is completely determined to perform its national and constitutional duties as regards the campaign against terrorist groups across the country, and to open up humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians as Turkish-backed militants prevent their departure and take\u00a0them to use as\u00a0human shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Syrian parliament has overwhelmingly recognized the mass killings of more than one million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that took place a century ago, as tensions run high between Damascus and Ankara over the latter\u2019s military campaign in Syria\u2019s embattled northwestern province of Idlib. Syria\u2019s official news agency SANA reported that the People’s Council approved the motion without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1,6],"tags":[426,1056,921,1057],"yoast_head":"\n
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