Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said today relations between Turkey and the United States were in danger over a resolution relating to massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
Referring to relations with the United States and the Armenian resolution, Mr Erdogan, using a Turkish idiom usually employed to describe relations, said: "Where the rope is worn thin, may it break off."
The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday a resolution branding the killings in 1915 as genocide - a charge Turkey hotly denies.
Ankara responded by calling its ambassador back for consultations.