The Turkish Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Brazil for consultation, after the Latin American country's Senate passed legislation recognizing the massacre of Armenians in 1915.

The ministry also summoned Brazil's ambassador to Ankara on June 3 over the matter, it said in an emailed statement.

Muslim Turkey accepts that Christian Armenians died during the upheaval of World War One but rejects declarations or legislation by foreign governments that classify the deaths as genocide.

Armenians, two dozen countries and most Western scholars consider the killings genocide.