A full-page ad placed with Turkish funding and denying the Armenian Genocide has been removed in the US, according to Newsweek.

The ad that read “Truth = Peace,” and which was published in The Wall Street Journal, had spurred anger.

Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, tweeted a photo of the ad, garnering hundreds of retweets and a slew of reactions, many of which chided The Wall Street Journal for printing it and questioned whether the paper would have printed a similar ad related to the Holocaust.

In response to the criticism, a Wall Street Journal spokesperson said that “we accept a wide range of advertisements, including those with provocative viewpoints. While we review ad copy for issues of taste, the varied and divergent views expressed belong to the advertisers.”

Neither Fact Check Armenia nor the Turkic Platform, listed in a contact on the website and as the “proud” funder of the billboard, responded immediately to Newsweek’s requests for comment.

Same ad also appeared in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper ads come soon after billboards with similar designs appeared near Boston’s Armenian Heritage Park and in the Chicago area.

The billboard was indeed taken down, the Boston Globe reported, with a spokesman for its owner, Clear Channel Outdoor, saying “the ad was placed there in error.” The Chicago centennial group said in a post on Facebook that the billboards in that area had also been removed. These billboards were removed in Chicago, too.  

In 2015, such billboards reportedly went up in Boston, New York, New Jersey, and Dallas.