U.S. lawmakers warned Turkey on Wednesday that its ties with Washington would suffer if it continued its anti-Israeli policy, Reuters reports.

At a news conference, Republicans and Democrats denounced Turkey, a NATO member, for supporting an aid convoy of ships that recently tried to run the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

"There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing closer to Iran and more antagonistic to the state of Israel," Representative Mike Pence, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, said.

Pence said he was ready to reevaluate his past reluctance to support a congressional resolution denouncing as genocide the killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I.

The largely symbolic resolution passed a House committee in March, but amid protests from Ankara, the House Democratic leadership never brought it to the chamber's floor for a vote.