NTV MSNBC, Turkey
April 15 2005

Ankara is waiting for Yerivan’s response

Erdoðan said that resolving the problem of so-called genocide would
open the way to bilateral relations with Armenia.

April 15 – Turkey’s Prime Minister has sent a letter to
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan calling for an objective study of
claims the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against its Armenian
citizens during World War I.

The letter from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, submitted by
Turkey’s embassy in the Georgian capital of Tblisi as Turkey and
Armenia do not have direct diplomatic relations, said that historians
should research the claims of genocide and that this work should be
conducted by a joint committee.
Not only Turkey but Armenia and other countries should open
the holdings in their archives on the Armenian issue, the Prime
Minister said.
Ankara is waiting for the response of Yerivan on the matter.
Turkey has long denied that any massacre of the Ottoman
Empire’s Armenian citizens took place and points to the killing of
many thousands of Turkish civilians in the east of the country during
the war.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress