The Australian government has said it will not be officially represented in Armenia next month as the country marks the 100th anniversary the so-called Armenian genocide, a move that was interpreted as support to Turkey's call to argue the 1915 incidents based on experts analyzing history archives.Events in Yerevan will coincide with the centenary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli, to which Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is expected to lead a high-level delegation, the Australian SBS reported. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told SBS the Australian government will not be sending a representative to Yerevan next month for the commemorations.Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg also recently announced that she will not be attending the commemorations in Yerevan, highlighting that Norway puts value on relations with Turkey.Solber said that Norwegian executives, including herself and members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will not be represented at the commemoration ceremonies and only the ambassador will be able to participate. According to a statement by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "The genocide allegations, which were supposedly committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915, are internationally disputed," and that the ministry would state their opinion on the matter later on.Baard Glad Pedersen, the undersecretary of the Norwegian Prime Minister's Office, said that conclusions regarding historical incidents should be left for the discretion of historians and that U.N. resolutions outline what can be considered genocide or not. "This issue has been hotly debated in the recent years" Pedersen said.Mertefe Bertinlioğlu, a deputy from the Norwegian Conservative Party in Oslo's Provincial Legislature, said that Solberg's decision must be respected, adding that Turkey has called for the opening of archives numerous times to enable historians to study and analyze the issue, but that Armenia had never accepted this. "I also agree that this issue should only be handled by historians and should not be exploited for political interests," Bertinlioğlu said.The 1915 events took place during World War I when a group of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire supported a Russian invasion and revolted against the empire, resulting in their forced relocation to eastern Anatolia. Turkey refuses to use the term "genocide" to refer to the incident, as many Turks also lost their lives due to attacks carried out by Armenians in Anatolia. Meanwhile, Armenia and the Armenian diaspora continue to campaign for the incidents to be recognized as genocide.In 2014, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a letter expressing condolences for the 1915 events in an unprecedented move. Turkish officials consistently urge for the establishment of a joint historical commission to investigate the events and call on Armenia to open their archives as Turkey has done.