Turkey condemned the Swiss parliament for ..

We strongly condemn and reject the decision adopted by the lower house of the Swiss parliament on the so-called Armenian genocide," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.

It added without elaborating that Switzerland would "bear responsibility for the negative consequences" triggered by the decision which the statement said was taken without consideration for bilateral ties.

The resolution by the lower house of the Swiss parliament, which goes against the Bern government’s advice, was adopted adopted by 107 votes to 67.

Unlike an earlier motion rejected in 2001, it does not formally require the Swiss government to recognize that a genocide had indeed taken place.

Instead, it asks only that the government acknowledge the decision and transmit it to Turkey.

Ankara hit back by saying that the Swiss resolution was a distortion of historical facts.

"It is unacceptable that events which took place under the special conditions of World War I and which caused great pain to both Turks and Armenians, be distorted and presented as genocide of one party," the Turkish ministry statement read.

Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kinsmen were massacred in orchestrated killings nine decades ago.

Turkey categorically rejects claims of genocide, saying that 300,000 Armenians and thousands of Turks were killed in what was a civil strife during World War I when the Armenians raised up against their Ottoman rulers.