Joe Hockey and Australian Prime Minister
Malcolm Turnbull have both called for parliament to formally recognise the Armenian Genocide. More than 20 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Canda and Russia, and two Australian states - NSW and South Australia - recognise the mass murder of Christians, including Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 as genocide, but both major Australian political parties have so far stopped short of doing so at a federal level, most likely because of diplomatic pressure from Turkey [2017].