Turkey accused Pope Francis of distorting history and fuelling “growing racism” in Europe late on Sunday after recalling its ambassador to the Vatican in protest against his latest recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu condemned as “inappropriate” Francis’s remarks made during a Vatican mass dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the World War One-era slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians.
“To read these sorrows in a one-sided way is inappropriate for the pope and the authority that he holds,” Davutoglu said in televised comments cited by the AFP news agency.
According to the Anatolia news agency, Davutoglu charged that the pontiff contributed to “the growing racism in Europe” by ignoring the suffering Turks and other Muslims during the First World War.
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