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    Armenia Rejects Turkish Proposal for Political Relations with Turkey

    Journal of Turkish Weekly
    May 3 2005

    (JTW) Armenia rejected the proposal of Turkish Prime Minister Recep
    Erdogan on Saturday to establish political relations while jointly
    researching the historical Armenian allegations regarding the World
    War I clashes.

    The proposal by Turkish PM Erdogan, made on Friday, "does not contain
    anything new," said Armenian presidential spokesman Viktor Sogomonyan.

    "We have proposed to establish diplomatic relations without
    preconditions, and examine outstanding issues between our two countries
    within the framework of an intergovernmental commission," Sogomonyan
    said. However Turkish Caucasian experts say ~SArmenia is not the
    country which can talk about conditions. Armenia is an occupier
    country in the region. Armenia occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan and
    made more than 1 million people refugee~T.

    Armenia insists the ethnic clashes during the First World War
    constitute genocide, and refuses to make establishing relations
    conditional on agreeing to review what it says is fact. Turkey has not
    accepted genocide allegations. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
    Erdogan said earlier in an interview that Turkey might establish
    political ties if Armenia agreed to his proposal for investigating
    the events. "Political relations might be established on one side and
    studies (about killings) can continue on the other side," Erdogan said.

    Earlier this month, Erdogan invited Armenia to set up a joint research
    committee. Armenian President Robert Kocharian responded by saying ties
    should be formed first. Turkey was one of the states which recognized
    Armenia~Rs independence. However Turkey cut the diplomatic ties when
    Armenia occupied 20 percent of neighboring Azerbaijan. Armenia does
    not recognize Turkey~Rs national borders.

    Armenia Opens Its National Archives

    On the other hand, the head of the Armenian national archives,
    Amatuni Virabyan, said Saturday that the first Turk to be allowed to
    carry out research there. Ektan Turkyelmaz, from Duke University in
    the U.S. state of North Carolina, would begin work Monday, Virabyan
    said. But many files remained the close while the Tashnak Archives in
    the US has never been opened. Tashnak Archives has important documents
    about the Armenian uprisings during the Ottoman period and about the
    Tashnak-Nazi co-operation.
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