Vatican.va, the Vatican website brought down by Turkish Hacker following Pope’s Armenian ‘Genocide’ comment on Sunday
A Turkish hacker has brought down the official Vatican City websiteย www.vatican.va, following Pope Francis’ controversial statement in which he referred to the massย killings of Armenians by Turks as โgenocideโ.
Pope Francis had termed the mass killings of Armenian Christians in Turkey as a ‘genocide’ on Sunday. This had caused a huge anger among the Turkish citizens and a huge diplomatic uproar between Ankara Vatican relations. Turkey hadย recalled its ambassador to the Vatican for “consultations” just hours after Francis’ comments.
The website www.vatican.vaย was first taken down through a Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] attack on Monday evening by Turkish hacker operating under the Twitter handleย @THTHerakles.
THTHerakles had announced on Twitter that he would continue to target the website should an official apology not be issued from the Vatican City.
https://t.co/ybH1M8kXFa #news #hack #Security #Vatican #Down Our actions against the Pope's statement will continue. pic.twitter.com/pFDq92yPuX
— B ร R ร (@Turkishw0lf) April 13, 2015
The hacker relayed the sentiments of Turkish people in general and said that the Popeโs comments were โunacceptableโ for a respected religious figurehead. โTaking sides and calling what happened with the Armenians genocide is not true [โฆ] We want Pope [Francis] to apologise for his words or we will make sure the website remains offline,โ he added.
At the time of publishing this article, the official Vatican City website is still under attack.