YEREVAN: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian on Thursday (Friday in Manila) brushed off Ankara’s first ever offer of condolences for the World War I mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, accusing Turkey of showing “utter denial” in failing to recognize the massacres as genocide.
In an unprecedented move described by the United States as a historic gesture, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday offered condolences over the massacres, calling them “our shared pain.”
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