Commenting on the call of the Turkish officials to open Armenian archives chief of the Archivist Agency of the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Culture Amatuni Virabian told journalists today that Armenia's archives had and would always be open for scientists and specialists willing to study not only documents on the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the last century, but also any other questions. As reported by «Arminfo» agency, Virabian noted that together with director of the Armenian Genocide museum Lavrentiy Barseghian he was preparing an open letter to the Turkish President and Prime Minister stating about the openness of the Armenian archives. In his words, Armenian scientists plan a tour to Ankara to familiarize with the opportunities of opening the Turkish archives. Virabian noted that thousands of documents testifying to mass violence acts, pogroms and massacres of the Armenian populations of Cilicia and West Armenia in 1894-1923 are stored in the Armenian archives.