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    ARMENIANS NOT HOPEFUL FOR RESTORATION OF TIES WITH TURKEY

    Today's Zaman
    03 October 2008, Friday
    Turkey

    A poll released yesterday in Yerevan revealed that more than one-third
    of the Armenian people believe that normalization of bilateral
    relations between Armenia and Turkey is impossible.

    Syuzanna Barsegyan of the Armenia Center for National and Strategic
    Research announced at a press conference the results of the survey
    concerning Armenia-Turkey relations.

    According to the survey, 33 percent of Armenians believe it impossible
    to have good relations with Turkey, while 43 percent said that they
    doubted that there could be a good relationship between Armenia
    and Turkey.

    Barsegyan said that only 24 percent of Armenians believe that
    normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey is possible.

    "According to the results, 64 percent of people state that they
    consider Turkey an enemy country, saying that there is a need to be
    careful in any contact with this country," Barsegyan said.

    While 11 percent of Armenians said they were against any kind of
    cooperation with Turkey, 76 percent said relations with Turkey could
    be normalized only after Armenia's preconditions are accepted by
    Turkey. Last month, a poll conducted in Turkey found that a brief
    visit by President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan to attend a soccer match
    between the Turkish and Armenian national teams, considered a landmark
    step to thaw relations between the two countries, was welcomed by an
    overwhelming majority of Turkish society.

    According to the survey by the Ankara-based MetroPOLL Strategic &
    Social Research Center, 69.6 percent of those polled found Gul's
    visit to Armenia successful, a figure suggesting that Turks are
    hopeful the visit may be a turning point in the relations between
    Turkey and Armenia. Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan invited Gul to
    watch a World Cup qualifying match between the Turkish and Armenian
    national teams in Yerevan. Gul's acceptance of the invitation raised
    hopes for dialogue that could eventually restore relations between
    the two estranged neighbors and help bury an almost century-old
    hostility.
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