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    TURKISH FM: "TURKEY DOESN'T DENY THAT DEVASTATING THINGS IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY"

    times.am
    Nov 30 2010
    Armenia

    According to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Turkey doesn't
    deny that devastating things happened to Armenians in early 20th
    century. Turkish FM has said about it in Washington.

    "Just 10 years ago, no one in Turkey spoke of the Armenian
    issue, whereas nowadays our society freely discusses the topic,"
    Times.am-Armenian news reports quoting the Voice of America radio
    station.

    Davutoglu believes that neither Armenians nor Turks are to blame for
    the existing conflicts between the two nations. He sees the emergence
    of nationalist movements as the main cause of the Genocide.

    Only a year before the events - in 1914 -Turkey had ministers of
    Armenian descent, and Armenian diplomats represented the country
    in a number of European capitals. In Ottoman sources, the Armenians
    were referred to as the 'most faithful citizens'," Davutoglu said,
    adding that all kinds of errors in that period occurred mostly due
    the lack of law and order throughout Turkey.

    Asked whether the Turkish parliament's failure to ratify the protocols
    was conditioned by the upcoming parliamentary election in the
    country, the Karabakh conflict or any other factor, Davutoglu said:
    "Unfortunately, Armenia's Constitutional Court passed a decision
    ruling out the possibility of creating a committee of historians,
    while the issue was important for Turkey."

    Davutoglu also said that the Armenian-Turkish protocols are aimed at
    improving the relations between Armenia and Turkey, normalizing the
    ties between the two peoples and establishing peace in the Caucasus
    region.

    He also reiterated Ankara's official stance that there will be no
    progress over the protocols without a progress in the Karabakh peace
    process.

    "Even if the protocols are approved without an Armenian-Azerbaijani
    agreement, Turkey will close the border again in case of an
    escalation," he said.




    From: A. Papazian
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