YEREVAN: The Vatican on Sunday hit back at claims from Turkey that Pope Francis showed a "mentality of the Crusades" after he denounced the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces as "genocide."

The pope has stirred Turkish anger during a three-day visit to ex-Soviet Armenia by using the term for the century-old slaughter that Ankara furiously rejects.

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