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    TURKEY SAYS IT COULD OPEN ARMENIAN BORDER

    Associated Press Worldstream
    May 9, 2009 Saturday 10:21 AM GMT

    Turkey's prime minister says Turkey could open its border with
    Armenia if Armenia withdraws its forces from the Azeri enclave of
    Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan says in a speech early Saturday that Turkey could
    open its border if Armenia lifts its "occupation" of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in support of Azerbaijan
    during its conflict with Armenia. Turkey backs Azerbaijan's claims
    to Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a large number of ethnic Armenian
    residents.

    Nagorno-Karabakh has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces
    since a six-year conflict that killed about 30,000 people and displaced
    1 million before a truce was reached in 1994.
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