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Egypt MPs Call on Parliament to ‎Recognise Armenian Genocide‎

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Independent Egyptian MP Mostafa Bakri said that ‎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.‎ ‎

The proposal comes after another Egyptian ‎MP, Emad Mahrous, on Sunday demanded the ‎government to grant political ‎asylum to exiled Turkish opposition figure ‎Fethullah Gulen. ‎

Mahrous accused Erdogan of exploiting the failed coup ‎against him this month to detain hundreds ‎of his political opponents and turn Turkey ‎into a Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship.‎

Relations between Turkey and Egypt have been strained since the 2013 ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood group and a close ally of Erdogan's AKP government.

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