Vatican hits back at Turkey for calling pope 'crusader'

The Vatican hit back on Sunday at Turkey's portrayal of Pope Francis as having a "crusader mindset" after he utilized the word genocide to depict the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians a century prior.

"The pope is on no campaign. He is not attempting to sort out wars or fabricate dividers but rather he needs to manufacture spans," representative Father Federico Lombardi told correspondents. "He has not let out the slightest peep against the Turkish individuals."

Tending to Armenia's leader, the administration and representatives on Friday, Francis withdrew from his readied content to utilize "genocide", a portrayal that maddened Turkey when he initially utilized it a year prior.

Turkey's appointee PM Nurettin Canikli said on Saturday it was "exceptionally tragic" the pope had utilized the word, including: "It is lamentably conceivable to see every one of the reflections and hints of crusader attitude in the activities of the papacy and the pope."

Francis initially utilized the word a year ago as a part of a service at the Vatican. An enraged Turkey reacted by reviewing its envoy to the Vatican and keeping him away for 10 months.

The word showed up again in a joint revelation marked toward the end of the outing by the pope and the leader of the Armenian Church, utilizing the same expression that exasperated Turkey a year ago.

Pope Francis leaves at the end of the Divine Liturgy at the apostolic Cathedral in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, June 26, 2016.

Turkey acknowledges that numerous Christian Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were murdered in conflicts with Ottoman powers amid World War One, yet challenges the figures and denies that the killings were deliberately organized and constitute a genocide. It additionally says numerous Muslim Turks died around then.

On Sunday morning, at the last headliner of his three-day trek to Armenia, Francis again made reference to the slaughter, paying tribute to "the numerous casualties of disdain who languished and gave their lives over the confidence".

The pope was a visitor in a Christian ceremony directed by Catholicos Karekin II, leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, which split from Rome over a philosophical question in the fifth century and is a piece of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Francis sat to the other side as Karekin drove an involved administration loaded with droning in the compound at Holy Etchmiadzin, the home office of the Armenian Church close Yerevan.

The pope has encouraged Armenia and Turkey to look for compromise and to avoid "the deceptive force of retaliation".

The question about the slaughters and contrasts over Yerevan's backing of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, have prompted laden relations that incorporate shut outskirts and an absence of strategic ties.

At the trek's keep going stop on Sunday before the pope was because of fly back to Rome, the two religious pioneers discharged birds from a cloister close to the Turkish outskirt as an image of their desires for peace between the nations.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Digby Lidstone)

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