'Advanced Islamist Democracy' Turkey summons Vatican ambassador over Pope's remarks on Armenian Genocide. (HD).
Turkey has summoned the Vatican's ambassador in Ankara over the Pope Francis's comments over the mass deportation and slaughter of Armenians in 1915.
Pope Francis referred the killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as “the first genocide of the 20th century” during a solemn mass in Vatican April 12, citing a statement signed by John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.
"In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies," he said. "The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century,' struck your own Armenian people."
While Francis did not use his own words to describe the murders as genocide, John Paul II's use of the term provoked a sharp reaction from Turkey at the time.
"We recall the centenary of that tragic event, that immense and senseless slaughter whose cruelty your forebears had to endure," Francis said.
"It is necessary, and indeed a duty, to honor their memory, for whenever memory fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester," he added.
@miskelayla @etabori Anyway after the papal visit to #Turkey : "It is not possible to have interfaith dialogue" http://t.co/uv6372laUB
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) April 12, 2015
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