更新于：2026年6月28日 / 美国东部时间上午10:29 / 美联社报道
以色列内阁周日一致通过一项提案，将一战期间奥斯曼帝国对亚美尼亚人的暴力行径认定为种族灭绝。
该举措仍需议会批准，此举反映出以土两国关系不断恶化。土耳其一直大力游说，阻止各国将1915年前后亚美尼亚人大规模死亡事件正式认定为种族灭绝，尽管亚美尼亚方面一直在推动承认这一事件。
历史学家估计，一战前后共有多达150万亚美尼亚人被奥斯曼土耳其人杀害，这一事件被学者广泛视为20世纪首次种族灭绝。土耳其否认这些死亡构成种族灭绝，称死亡人数被夸大，死者是内战和动乱的受害者。
多年来，以色列因担心激怒土耳其而未正式提及这一议题，但两国关系在过去20年间持续恶化，尤其是近年来加沙、黎巴嫩和伊朗局势持续动荡之际。
“尽管有大量明确的历史记录，亚美尼亚种族灭绝至今仍是一场制度化否认和淡化行动的目标，包括主要由土耳其政府实施的篡改历史的操纵行为，”推动该决议的以色列外长吉德恩·萨尔说道。
他指出，包括总理内塔尼亚胡在内的以色列领导人此前曾将针对亚美尼亚人的暴力行径称为种族灭绝，但以色列议会从未通过投票正式承认这一认定。
“做正确的事永远不嫌晚，”萨尔周日说道，并称这是一项“道德和历史责任”。
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他指出，包括美国、叙利亚和黎巴嫩在内的32个国家也已将该暴力事件归类为种族灭绝。目前尚不清楚以色列内阁周日一致通过的这项决议何时会提交议会审议。土耳其方面暂无即时回应。
以色列和土耳其曾是亲密盟友，但在土耳其伊斯兰主义总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安上台后，两国关系恶化，促使以色列重新审视其立场。
以色列 repeatedly faced accusations, including from the United Nations and Turkey, that its offensive in Gaza amounts to genocide. Israel, founded in the wake of the Holocaust, denies the accusations.
以色列发动这场战争是为了回应哈马斯2023年10月7日的袭击。哈马斯政府管辖的加沙卫生部称，已有超过7.3万人被杀，其中约一半是妇女和儿童。以色列称其并未 targeting civilians，并指责哈马斯将平民用作人体盾牌。
上周，由联合国委托的一个独立专家小组指控以色列在加沙故意射杀儿童，并再次指责以色列实施了种族灭绝。以色列称该报告是“充满诽谤的骗局”。
Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide
Updated on: June 28, 2026 / 10:29 AM EDT / AP
Israel’s Cabinet unanimously approved a proposal on Sunday to designate violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide.
The step, which still needs approval in Parliament, reflects deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey. Turkey has fiercely lobbied to prevent countries from officially recognizing the mass deaths of Armenians around 1915 as a genocide, even as Armenians have pushed for it.
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
For years, Israel did not officially broach the subject for fear of angering Turkey, but that relationship has soured over the past two decades, especially in recent years as the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran have dragged on.
“Despite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian Genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including a manipulative rewriting of history, mainly by the Turkish government,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who brought the decision to the government.
He noted that Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have previously described the violence against Armenians as a genocide. But it has never been formally recognized in a vote by Israel’s Knesset.
“It is never too late to do the right thing,” Saar said Sunday, calling it a “moral and historical duty.”
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He noted that 32 countries, including the United States, Syria and Lebanon, have also classified the violence as a genocide. It was not immediately known when Sunday’s decision, approved unanimously by Israel’s Cabinet, would go to the parliament for approval. There was no immediate reaction from Turkey.
Israel and Turkey were once close allies, but relations soured during the rise of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leading Israel to reconsider its position.
Israel has faced repeated accusations, including from the United Nations and Turkey, that its offensive in Gaza amounts to genocide. Israel, founded in the wake of the Holocaust, denies the accusations.
Israel launched the war in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Gaza’s Health Ministry, part of the Hamas government, says over 73,000 people have been killed, roughly half of them women and children. Israel says it does not target civilians and accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields.
Last week, a team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations accused Israel of deliberately shooting children in Gaza and repeated accusations that Israel has carried out a genocide. Israel called the report a “libelous sham.”
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