Ankara mayor slams Netanyahu over Genocide remarks

Mansur Yavaş, Mayor of Ankara from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), known for his nationalist stance, has responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statement on recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

“Netanyahu, who will go down in history as a perpetrator of crimes against humanity through years of occupation, massacre, and oppression against the Palestinian people, targets our country by distorting the events of 1915 — an act that represents the clearest example of hypocrisy, corruption, and shamelessness,” Yavaş wrote in a post on X.

According to him, “a person who has massacred thousands of innocent children, women, and civilians in Gaza, used starvation and thirst as weapons, and destroyed hospitals and schools has no right to speak a word about humanity.”

“The Turkish nation will never reconcile with the distortion of its history. I strongly condemn Netanyahu’s statements and once again stress that lies cannot wash away the blood of innocent people from his hands,” declared the Ankara mayor, as reported by Factor.am.

Earlier, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry had also sharply responded to Netanyahu’s comments, once again rejecting the Armenian Genocide.