ANKARA, Apr 12 : Turkey has summoned the Vatican ambassador after Pope Francis used the word "genocide" to describe mass killing of Armenians under Ottoman rule in WW1 100 years ago.
The foreign ministry requested a meeting with the Vatican's envoy in Ankara, Turkish media reported.
Armenia and many historians say up to 1.5 million people were systematically killed by Ottoman forces in 1915.
Turkey has consistently denied that the killings were genocide.
The Pope's comments came at a service in Rome to honour a 10th Century mystic, attended by Armenia's president.
The dispute has continued to sour relations between Armenia and Turkey.    ?BBC Online