ANKARA, Dec 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish Foreign Ministry, summoned U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield, a day after U.S. Senate voted to recognise the killings of Armenians, during World War I, as “genocide.”
Turkey’s deputy Foreign Minister, Sedat Onal, sent Ankara’s opposition to the U.S. Senate resolution, a Foreign Ministry official said.
The ministry earlier condemned the resolution, saying that, the vote was “one of the shameful examples of how history can be politicised.”
The resolution is “devoid of historical awareness or any legal base,” the ministry said.
The resolution, adopted by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, asserts that, it is the U.S. policy to commemorate the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, from 1915 to 1923 as “genocide.”– NNN-ANADOLU
