Mehmet Paçac

Turkish researchers have been invited by Vatican librarian Jean-Louis Brugues to the Vatican Library, which hosts one of the world's most significant manuscript collectionsFrench archbishop and Vatican librarian Jean-Louis Brugues was in Istanbul on Feb.

Turkey has announced a decision to return its ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçac?, nearly 10 months after withdrawing him in protest at Pope Francis' description of the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as "the first genocide of the 20th century."

The good news came through a column. Hürriyet columnist Fatih Çekirge opened his piece, ?How Turkey?s crisis with the Christian world was averted,? on March 30, datelined ?The Vatican,? by relieving everyone: ?Let?s first break the news. Turkey and the Christian world have gone through a serious crisis over Apr. 24 [the anniversary of the Armenian genocide].

Turkey's ambassador to the Vatican, Mehmet Paçac? returned to Ankara late April 12, after Ankara's strong reaction against Pope Francis' description of the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as genocide.