Ankara is waiting for Yerivan’s response

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.