Israeli parliamentarians have debated whether the country should officially recognise the mass killings of Armenians during the First World War as genocide.
Last week France angered Turkey by passing a law criminalising denying that what happened in 1915 was genocide.
Turkey has long refused to recognise the claim that some 1.5 million Armenians were killed in 1915 and 1916, saying instead that 500,000 people died fighting against the Ottoman Empire during the world war
If Israel were to recognise what happened as genocide, it would further damage the already strained relations between Israel and Turkey, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the debate to be called off.
