Turkey's president urges study of Ottoman archives to dispel genocide claims

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged nations who label the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, saying they should inspect Turkey's Ottoman-era archives and "we have nothing to hide".

Marking April 24 1915, considered the start of the massacre of the Armenians, Mr Erdogan said nations who accuse Turkey of genocide have a "bloody past".