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Turkey's top cleric calls Pope 'immoral' for Armenia comments

By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's top cleric on Monday described comments by Pope Francis that the 1915 mass killing of Armenians was genocide as immoral and said the Vatican should look to its own history before levelling accusations of casting stones. Francis this month became the first head of the Roman Catholic church to publicly call the killing of as many as 1.5 million Armenians "genocide", prompting a row with Turkey, which summoned the Vatican's envoy and recalled its own. "The Vatican will come out as the biggest loser if we are all giving account for past sufferings and pain caused," Mehmet Gormez, head of the Religious Affairs Directorate, the highest religious authority in largely Muslim Turkey, told Reuters in an interview.

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