Some forces are "trying to blacken the glorious history of the Turkish people and the statements on the Armenian Genocide are a typical example of this", Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated. "It's hard to find a nation with such huge historical heritage. As Turkey's Prime Minister I personally proposed Armenia to form a joint commission for investigation of the last years of the Ottoman Empire," Erdogan said, stressing that the government headed by him does the utmost to support the department of Turkish history and language. "These two departments lay in the basis of the formation of the Turkish Republic," the Prime Minister concluded.