Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled the Argentina leg of his tour of Latin America.
It comes after city officials in Buenos Aires called off an event inaugurating a monument to the revered founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The Turkish foreign ministry blamed “hostile” interference from Armenian pressure groups in Argentina.
Turkey and Armenia remain in a long-running row over the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks.
