NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Oct 12 2007

Turkey recalls ambassador to Washington for talks

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is said to be
reconsidering his forthcoming trip to the US next month.

ANKARA – Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Washington for
consultations in the wake of the potentially damaging vote by the
House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations on the
so-called Armenian genocide.

It was announced Thursday that Ambassador Nabi Sensoy had been
recalled to Ankara for consultations after the committee on Tuesday
passed a resolution declaring that the Ottoman Empire had commited an
act of genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War One.

Turkey has always rejected allegations that thee was any planned
massacres of Armenians during the war, though acknowledges that many
thousands of civilians, both Turkish and Armenian, lost their lives
in the unrest brought on by the war.

In another response to the committee’s vote, Turkish Naval Forces
Commander Admiral Metin Atac cancelled a forthcoming to the United
States.