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.