22 December 2011 Turkey recalls envoy from France over 'genocide' bill
Armenians say up to 1.5m people were killed by the Ottoman Turks in 1915-16
The Turkish ambassador to France has been recalled in protest at a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians was genocide.
The National Assembly in Paris voted by a show of hands to back the bill by a large majority, and it will go before the Senate next year.
Turkey rejects the term "genocide" to describe the killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.
