Turkey has condemned Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel for publicly recognizing the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide in the wake of similar statements made by Pope Francis and other world leaders.
"This statement of the Belgian Prime Minister is inconsistent with historical facts and incompatible with international law," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a weekend statement.
Addressing Belgium's parliament on Wednesday, Michel said the World War One-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians "must be viewed as a genocide."
Michel thus echoed a resolution that was passed by the Belgian Senate in 1998. Successive Belgian governments have until now avoided using the word genocide with regard to the Armenian massacres, however.
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