French foreign minister to ask Turkey to admit the Armenian genocide in 1915, but stops calling it genocide - as the French parlament has done in the past - and will ask instead the Turkish government to accept it as a "tragedy".

Turkey speaks officially of 800 000 dead - and claims the victims didn´t die as a victims of organized violence whose goal was the extermination of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire - the Armenians speak of up to 1,7 million dead and others usually put the number of dead between 1,2-1,5 million with the latter number used most often.