Turkey on Wednesday hinted it may resort to international law against foreign legislative bodies' resolutions labeling the killing of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as genocide.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Burak Özügergin on Wednesday reiterated Ankara's view that parliaments are not places for debating historical facts, while underlining that this view is a matter of principle no matter what the outcome of votes on such resolutions are.

“Resorting to international law is also one of the options we have been considering,” Özügergin said when responding to a question on whether Turkey would resort to international law against foreign legislative bodies' resolutions on the Armenian issue. Without excluding an option mentioned by a journalist, which is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights as a state, Özügergin, said a legal discussion is not appropriate.