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Egyptian MP Mostafa Bakri has called on parliament and ‎the government to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

He and 336 MPs have called on parliament ‎to approve a draft resolution in favour of ‎recognizing the death of 1.5 ‎million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman state in 1915 as a “genocide”, AhramOnline reported.‎

‎Independent MP Bakri calls for a special session on ‎the issue because the crime “should be ‎condemned by all world parliaments.”

“New historical evidence has ‎exposed the slaughter of 1.5 million ‎Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks ‎between 1915 and 1922,” Bakri said.

Bakri concluded that while “the Ottomans ‎committed the 1915 massacre, the Erdogan regime is now moving to commit ‎another crime against his political ‎opponents and minorities that seek ‎independence.”

MP Talaat Khalil supports Bakri's ‎draft resolution and believes that perpetrators ‎must admit their crimes and apologize.

“But it is clear that the arrogant Erdogan ‎regime will never admit that this massacre ‎[took place] because he believes himself to be a new ‎Ottoman sultan,” Khalil told reporters, adding that Egypt has always been a shelter for the ‎Armenians since the 1915 massacre.

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