"Turkey is ready to cooperate with Armenia should it take "positive" steps with regards to genocide allegations as well as to a dispute with Azerbaijan over the region of Karabakh," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the inauguration ceremony of various facilities in the northwestern Turkish province of Kocaeli, Anadolu news agency reported.
Erdogan demanded Armenia to abandon the process of the international recognition of Genocide and even slammed Pope Francis' statement that called the 1915 incidents as Genocide.
A few days earlier, the European Parliament adopted the resolution recognizing the 1915 events as genocide.
"Politicizing this issue, while pulling off it from the historical basis, will damage mostly Armenians," Erdogan added.
He reiterated that Turkish historical archives are open and called on Armenia and other countries to open their archives, if they had any.
The Turkish president again called for the establishment of a joint commission of historians and the opening of archives "to study and uncover what happened between the Ottoman Empire and its Armenian citizens."