Overview
- In an interview with Patrick Bet-David, the Israeli prime minister replied, "I just did," when asked to recognize the Ottoman-era mass killings as genocide.
- He said the Knesset had already passed a resolution, though multiple reports note no formal parliamentary vote has been adopted.
- Armenian activist Kegham Balian and others argued the comment does not amount to official state recognition.
- Netanyahu included Armenians, Pontic Greeks and Assyrians in his acknowledgment, a formulation likely to draw attention in Greece and Cyprus.
- Historians estimate 1–1.5 million Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Greeks and Assyrians were killed, while Turkey rejects the term genocide and had not commented in the latest reports.