Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

People line up to lay flowers at the monument in Yerevan, Armenia, to the victims of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, on the 106th anniversary of the massacre (Davit Abrahamyan/Pan Photo/AP)

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the American ambassador in Ankara to protest over the US decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide”.

Deputy foreign minister Sedat Onal met David Satterfield late on Saturday to express Ankara’s strong condemnation.