article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Pope Francis risked Turkish anger on Sunday by using a genocide" to refer to the mass killings of Armenians a century ago under the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: In the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies," Pope said at a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian massacres.
article_snippet.sent: The first, which is widely considered 'the first genocide of the 20th century,' struck your own Armenian people," Pope said, referencing a 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and the head of the Armenian church.
article_snippet.sent: Pope use of a genocide -- even though Pope was quoting from a 2001 declaration by Pope John Paul II and the head of the Armenian church upset Turkey.
article_snippet.sent: "Since this is a situation that our do not approve of, as a first reaction, its ambassador to the Vatican is summoned to get consultation," Gursoy said, adding that the Pope's use of the word "genocide" was "a one-sided evaluation.
article_snippet.sent: In a tweet Sunday on his official account, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the Pope's use of the word "unacceptable" and "out of touch with both historical facts and legal basis.
article_snippet.sent: "Religious offices are not places through which hatred and animosity are fueled by unfounded allegations," the tweet reads.
article_snippet.sent: This consternation over the use of the word 'genocide' occurs regularly.
article_snippet.sent: The Pope's statement are in this context of universal value.
article_snippet.sent: Pope Francis said Sunday that "Catholic and Orthodox Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Greeks" were also killed in the bloodshed a century ago.
article_snippet.sent: Pope Francis said Nazism and Stalinism were responsible for the other two "massive and unprecedented tragedies" of the past century.
highlights_snippet.sent: Former Turkish ambassador to the Vatican calls use of the word "genocide" a "one-sided evaluation"
  Pope discusses massacres of Armenians a century after they took place .
  