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It comes after Germany’s Bundestag approved a motion describing the 1915 killings of Armenians as a "genocide" prompting a fierce reaction from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his countrymen.

The decision was made over the mass killings of Armenians 101-years-ago in which the country says up to 1.5 million of their people died at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War One.

Turkey has always rejected the claim, suggesting it was a fight on both sides during which 300,000 were killed.

The motion to call it genocide, put forward by Merkel, was passed on Thursday with support from all the parties in the German parliament.

It has left the Turks furious.

This morning’s headlines in the country featured vulgar editorials - with one state supporting paper labelling German Chancellor Merkel as Hitler.

In a show of defiance against Germany the newspaper used photo editing software too dress Merkel up in a Nazi uniform with a Fuhrer-style moustache and a swastika flag on the front page.

Anti-AKP and strictly Kemalist newspaper Sözcü carried the headline ‘Schämen Sie sich’ meaning ‘shame on you’ in German.

But the editorial went even further.