YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS: Celebrating the Gallipoli Battle anniversary on the Armenian Genocide centenary day, Ankara offered itself a bad service. This was stated by the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan at the 5th session of the State Commission Coordinating the Events Dedicated to the 100thAnniversary of the Armenian Genocide.  

When I received that obscene invitation, I deemed it necessary to immediately and publicly respond to Recep Erdoğan since it was clear that the invitation could have been misunderstood and misinterpreted by foreign media and the international community. I believe my response and the reactions from the international community and within Turkey prove that that poorly calculated step was in vain.

That step was in vain, and so are all the expressions of denial. Denial is not only an expression of political weakness and incompleteness, but also a legal category. It links Turkey's current authorities to their predecessors having perpetrated the crime of genocide and makes them accomplices to the gravest crime against humanity. And that is exactly what the Republic of Turkey was busy with yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights.”