The meeting on Thursday was also addressed by the Turkish president,Recip Tayip Erdogan and Prime Minister, Ahmit Davitoglu.

The ceremony was attended by the president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, and other state officials.

Australians, New Zealanders and Turks gathered on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula on Thursday ahead of the 100th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War One

The Armenian nation mourns victims of the events of 1915.

Two very different but not unrelated episodes of human tragedy that happened in the early stages of World War I are being commemorated this weekend.

Nations in and around the Caucasus Region will over the coming days mark anniversaries of tragic events that happened during World War I. In Armenia, and among Armenian communities all over the world will on Friday mark the centenary of the start of the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in Anatolia, also known as the Armenian Genocide. In Turkey, leaders of many nations will gather to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Gallipoli Campaign, also known as Battle of Çanakkale in which hundreds of thousands of Turks and troops of other nations died. There are those who argue about the differences of the two occasions. But the end result was that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions died in a relatively short time. Our first duty is to remember them. Commonspace.eu will observe sixty hours of mourning from 1800 GMT on Thursday, 23 April to 0600 GMT on Sunday 26th April. During this period we will run stories on events in Yerevan, Gallipoli and elsewhere and share with our readers historical flashbacks. On Sunday and Monday we will assess where the region is going forward, an opportunity to renew our commitment for a future of peace in and around the Caucasus Region.

The handing over of historical archive during the last round of the Geneva talks was an important confidence building measure. Joseph A. Smith reports on the significance.

The two sides have however given very different narratives of the incident, which is supposed to have happened on Tuesday morning near the Terter District.

The decision was announced following a meeting between EU and Eastern Partnership countries foreign ministers held in Luxembourg on Monday.

Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Centre reported that Aliaskhab Kebekov was killed during a special operation conducted on the outskirts of Buinaksk, in Daghestan.