Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States for consultations after a vote in a US congressional committee on Thursday branded the World War I killing of Armenians as "genocide." In a statement, Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said he was seriously concerned that the non-binding resolution would harm Turkish-US relations and attempts by Turkey and Armenia to bury a century of hostility.
For his part, Turkish President Abdullah Gul called the resolution “an injustice to history and to the science of history.” He added that Turkey “will not be responsible for the negative results” from the resolution.
Armenia claims that the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against Armenians living in Anatolia in 1915.
