Ankara recalled its ambassador to Brazil for consultation, after Brazil's Senate passed legislation recognising the massacre of Armenians during the First World War in Turkey as genocide, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
"Political decisions of this nature, taken under the influence of the Armenian lobbies, can neither change the historical facts nor the legal norms. Our views have been conveyed to the Ambassador of Brazil in Ankara. Turkish Ambassador in Brasilia, Huseyin Dirioz, has also been recalled to Ankara for consultations," RIA Novosti cited the Foreign Ministry as saying.
