Turkey: Envoy to Return to U.S.

By REUTERS

Turkey said on Friday that it was sending its ambassador back to Washington, a month after he was recalled to protest against a resolution by Congress to declare that the mass killings of Armenians during World War I constituted genocide. A committee in the House of Representatives approved a nonbinding resolution on March 4 calling on President Obama to refer to the killings of as many as 1.5 million Armenian Christians as genocide, prompting Turkey to immediately withdraw its envoy. The State Department welcomed the decision to return the ambassador.