‘GENOCIDE’: TURKEY SUMMONS VATICAN AMBASSADOR TO ANKARA
The Indian Awaaz
April 12, 2015 Sunday
India
India, April 12 — Turkey has summoned the Vatican ambassador to Ankara
over Pope Francis’s use of the word – genocide – to describe the mass
killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in World War I. BBC reports,
the foreign ministry reportedly told the envoy it was disappointed
by the comments. The Pope’s comments came at a service in Rome to
honour a 10th Century mystic, attended by Armenia’s president.
Armenia and many historians say up to 1.5 million people were
systematically killed by Ottoman forces in 1915. Turkey has
consistently denied that the killings were genocide.
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