Turkey Recalls Its ambassador from Austria

In recent time Turkey has come under immense international pressure and condemnation after there refusal to recognize as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 during the World War I era.

The French president Francois Hollande on April 24 in an annual ceremony in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary Of Armenian Massacre, has called on Ankara to use the word genocide to describe the past event that took place at Ottoman Turkey, Turkeys has refused to describe the killings as genocide, stating in there defense that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest rather than a systematic plan to exterminate the Armenian population in Ottoman Turkey.

also in attendance was the Russian President  Vladimir Putin, who also used the term genocide in reference to the killings, Putin in a speech at the commemorations on April 24 warned of the dangers of nationalism and what he called 'Russophobia,' a comment that has been viewed as veiled criticism of the pro-Western government in Ukraine.

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian expressed hope that recent steps to recognize the massacre as genocide would help 'dispel the darkness of 100 years of denial.'

Putin, Hollande, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades were among those who also placed a flower in the wreath at the memorial's eternal flame.

The annual April 24 commemoration in Armenian marks the date in 1915 commonly seen as the beginning of the killings, viewed by many historians and at least 22 countries as genocide.

Turkey, meanwhile, held a separate event on April 24 to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I between Allied troops and forces of the Ottoman Empire.
The events were to be attended by Britain's Prince Charles and the prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand.
Critics noted that the Allied landings at Gallipoli began on April 25, 2015 and accused Turkey of moving its commemoration forward by one day to try to divert world attention from the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.
Sarkisian also has accused Ankara of deliberately 'trying to divert world attention' from the Yerevan commemorations.
While World War I ended in defeat for Ottoman forces and their German allies, the Battle of Gallipoli is viewed as an important step in the creation of the modern Turkish state in 1923.
Concerning the mass killings of Armenians, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on April 23 that Armenian claims 'baseless and groundless.'
Erdogan said there was no place -- 'in democracies or in law' -- to presume Armenia is right and to forbid other opinions.
Austria in agreement with the rest of world has released a joint statement in a parliamentary inter party agreement has described the Massacre as genocid, on April 12th, Turkey recalled its ambassador to Austria.
April 12, Pope Francis angered Turkey when quoting part of a statement from John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001 referring to the killings as "the first genocide of the 20th century."

With reporting by AFP, AP, Reuters, and dpa

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