German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide

German lawmakers voted Thursday to recognize the mass killing of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide.

The vote, which drew support from several major parties in the German parliament, led Turkey to withdraw its ambassador to Germany "for consultations," according to a BBC report.

Many historians say that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in 1915 in what they describe as a genocide. Turkey disputes that figure and rejects the world genocide.