ANKARA, Turkey, April 23 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan unexpectedly offered condolences, but not an apology, to the families of a million Armenians killed in a World War I massacre.
The mass killings have long been a source of contention. Armenia has demanded Turkey acknowledge the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide; Turkey puts the figure closer to 500,000 and claims they died of fighting and starvation, and rejects defining the issue as genocide.