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    STALEMATED ARMENIAN-TURKISH RECONCILIATION PROCESS MAY RESUME ONLY AFTER NEXT PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN TURKEY: EXPERT

    /ARKA/
    April 21, 2010
    YEREVAN

    An Armenian political analyst said today the stalemated
    Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process may resume only after next
    parliamentary elections in Turkey.

    Alexander Iskandarian, head of the Caucasian Media Institute (CMI)
    in Yerevan, said after April 24 when Armenians worldwide will be
    marking the 95-th anniversary of the 1915 genocide, it will be clear
    whether Ankara would come under fresh international pressure to mend
    its relations with Armenia and if this happens, then the first results
    would appear no sooner than after 2011 parliamentary elections in
    Turkey, he said during a video conference between Yerevan and Armenia
    at Novosti Armenia international press center.

    According to him the reconciliation process may get a boost earlier,
    but only after April 24 and further developments will be contingent
    largely on a set of external factors, particularly, on the stance of
    Washington, Moscow and Brussels on Armenia and Turkey.

    He recalled that the independent Armenia since its inception was
    ready for a compromised settlement of its problems with Turkey as all
    three presidents declared that Yerevan was prepared for unconditional
    normalization of relations with Turkey. He also said the situation
    in Turkey regarding discussions on the Armenian genocide has changed
    dramatically in the last 5-6 years and the taboo on this issue was
    removed.

    Turkey and Armenia have had no diplomatic ties since Armenia became
    independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Turkey closed its border
    with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for its ally, Azerbaijan,
    which had a dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic
    Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.

    There are several sensitive issues complicating the establishment of
    normal relations between the two countries, particularly, Ankara's
    blatant support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    resolution process and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge the mass
    killings of Armenians in the last years of the Ottoman Empire as a
    genocide.
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