ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires on Friday to complain about the Netherlands parliament recognising the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
The parliamentary motion, which the Dutch government said would not become official policy, risks further worsening relations already strained over the Netherlands barring Turkish ministers from campaigning for a 2017 referendum that gave President Tayyip Erdogan more power.
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