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    TURKEY AND ARMENIA SEEK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
    By Dale Yurong

    KFSN (ABC Fresno)
    http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section= news/national_world&id=6991739
    Aug 31 2009

    ANKARA, Turkey (KFSN) -- Armenia and Turkey are ready to
    end a historically unbreakable rift and establish diplomatic
    ties. Recognition by Turkey of the Armenian genocide has long been
    a priority for Armenians. But it's not clear whether the talks will
    solve the long-running dispute.

    Historians say between 1915 and 1923 more than one-point-five million
    Armenians were massacred by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Turkey's
    government has maintained the deaths were the result of civil
    war. Since then, normalizing relations between the two countries has
    been impossible.

    Fresno State professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian said, "Turkey has
    been the stumbling block because they have refused to recognize the
    Armenian genocide."

    Der Mugrdechian heads the Armenian Studies program at Fresno
    State. He's pleased the two countries are ready to establish diplomatic
    ties but doesn't believe Turkey is ready to acknowledge the world war
    one-era mass killings. He explained, "It's my feeling the genocide
    issue will not be there simply because Turkey has refused to do that
    before. I don't see them changing that at this point and Armenia
    has always said there would be no pre-conditions on normalizing
    diplomatic relations."
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