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    NATIONALISTIC MOOD ALWAYS PREVAILED IN TURKEY

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/
    22.07.2009 19:33 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Nationalistic mood always prevailed in Turkey. In
    this context, it's hard to discuss Armenian-Turkish rapprochement,"
    Noravank Scientific Educational Center expert, turkologist Ruben
    Melkonyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

    "Significant part of Turkish population supports nationalistic views,
    which was proved by recent elections into local government," the expert
    emphasized. Ruben Melkonyan reminded that antinationalistic mood's
    predominance was the reason Ankara changed the site of return football
    match between Armenian and Turkish teams from Kayseri to Bursa.

    "In frontier cities of Turkey (Kars, Igdir) there are a great number
    of Azeri inhabitants. In case of border opening a number of problems
    could arise around the issue," the turkologist noted.

    Dwelling on possibility of Armenian-Turkish rapprochement, Ruben
    Melkonyan noted that Turkey will take concrete steps towards
    normalization of ties with Armenia before the return match between
    Armenian and Turkish football teams.
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