OREANDA-NEWS. The Turkish Foreign Ministry called on US Ambassador David Satterfield in connection with the decision of the US House of Representatives to recognize the Armenian Genocide. This was announced on Wednesday by a Russian media source in the republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"US ambassador David Satterfield was called to the ministry in connection with the decision of the US House of Representatives on the events of 1915, which lacks any historical and legal basis," the agency’s source said. According to him, this step was also due to "the resolution of the House of Representatives of the US Congress on a new package of sanctions against Turkey due to the operation" Source of Peace "in Syria".

On April 24, Armenia annually celebrates the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide. On this day in 1915, the deportation of representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia from Constantinople began. The Armenian Genocide is called the mass deportation and extermination of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.