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 Argentinean judge Norberto Oyarbide ruled Friday that "the Turkish state committed the crime of genocide against the Armenian people" between 1915 and 1923. The judgment came after the plaintiff, Gregorio Hairapetian, joined by his family, attorneys for the Luisa Hairapetian Foundation, the Argentine press corps, as well as the Armenian National Committee of Argentina members and the community at large, sued the court against Turkey demanding to help an Armenian descendant living in Argentina learn the fate of more than 50 of his relatives who disappeared nearly a century ago.

Turkish “Hurriyet” writes that Turkey has slammed an Argentine judge's ruling that it committed genocide against Armenians around the time of World War I. The Foreign Ministry said Monday the ruling was an example of how legal systems are abused by extreme nationalists belonging to the Armenian diaspora.

Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th century and took the criticism of the West painfully. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by lots of states. It was first recognized by Uruguay in 1965. Later Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina and the US 42 states did the same. The Armenian Genocide has been recognized also by Vatican, the Council of Europe, the World Council of Churches.