Ankara blasts Berlin after 'genocide' motion

Turkey recalled its envoy to Berlin on Thursday and threatened further measures after Germany's Parliament labeled the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces genocide.

Berlin's lower house of Parliament approved a nonbinding resolution on the 1915-16 killings in a move touching a raw nerve in Turkish-European relations.

The use of the word "genocide" goes to the heart of a long-running battle for world opinion between Armenia and Turkey over the massacres committed a century ago.