Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Moscow for ceremonies honoring the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII, took the opportunity to reproach the leaders of both Russia and Poland for their governments' recent decisions to recognize the Armenian claims of genocide.
 

According to sources, Russian Federal President Vladimir Putin listened carefully to PM Erdogan's reminder of Turkey's sensitivity to the decision by the Russian Duma to acknowledge the so-called genocide. PM Erdogan made the same type of complaint to Polish President Alexander Kwasnieski, who will himself be hosting Erdogan along with many other world leaders in Poland later this month for a summit of the European Council. 

Norwegian leader apologizes once more for shadow over Erdogan's visit
 
Interestingly, the Norwegian Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, who was also in Moscow for the ceremonies, took it upon himself to apologize once more to Erdogan for the incident earlier this spring in Norway when Erdogan was pelted with eggs by PKK protesters.
 
Plenty of chances to chat with world leaders
 
The ceremonies and reception following at the Kremlin were packed with world leaders, many of whom Erdogan spoke with casually, though notably his liveliest conversations were with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder, who had himself just been in Ankara a few days before. Erdogan was seated at the dinner given at the Kremlin in honor of the world leaders between Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkanende and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. With one veteran representing each country which fought in WWII represented at the dinner, there was also a Dutch veteran of WWII seated at Erdogan's table.