ANKARA - ''We are comprehensively and positively assessing the letter that Armenian President Mr. Robert Kocharian sent as a reply to Turkish Prime Minister Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's letter,'' said Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Namik Tan on Thursday.
Tan told reporters, ''Mr. Erdogan sent a letter to Mr. Kocharian on April 13th, 2005 and proposed establishment of a joint commission of historians from both countries to research incidents in 1915.''
''We are assessing the letter comprehensively and with a positive point of view,'' he added.