Turkey shares Armenian's pain with sincerity and understands them, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at his commemoration message read at Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate, during a ceremony dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial.
President Erdogan further said, "During World War I, which is one of the greatest tragedies of humanity, millions of people from every nation living in the Ottoman Empire's borders, died." "We succeeded in establishing the Republic of Turkey, without forgetting these pains but also knowing how to cope with them. And today, we all work, and strive to reach better days in terms of peace and brotherhood, without discriminating based on ethnic or religious identity."
"The doors of our hearts are open to the deceased Ottoman Armenians' grandchildren," he said.