ANKARA – US Ambassador in Turkey summoned by Foreign Ministry in Ankara.
The U.S. ambassador in Turkey was summoned on Wednesday after the House ofRepresentatives voted to recognize mass killings of Armenians a century agoas genocide and called for sanctions over Turkey’s incursion in Syria,Anadolu news agency said.
Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killedin clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One, but denies that thekillings were systematically orchestrated and constitute genocide.
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The state-owned Anadolu agency said ambassador David Satterfield wassummoned to the Foreign Ministry.
