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    Turkey not to open border with Armenia - US analyst tells Azeri TV

    ANS TV, Baku
    30 Jun 05

    Turkey is unlikely to open its border with Armenia soon, an
    American analyst has told Azerbaijani commercial ANS TV. Turkish
    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Azerbaijan on 30 June
    following his meetings in Washington and used the Baku visit to inform
    the Azerbaijani leadership of Ankara's and Washington's wishes, the
    director of the Turkey Programme of the Washington-based Centre for
    Strategic and International Studies, Bulent Alirza, told ANS.

    In an interview with the "Point of View" programme on ANS TV, Alirza
    said that Turkey is unlikely to open its border with Armenia soon
    because that would spoil relations with Azerbaijan and because
    Armenia has no intention of giving up the idea of promoting the
    alleged Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

    He also welcomed the remarks of the Azerbaijani president that Baku
    will soon start direct flights to North Cyprus and establish business
    links with Turkish Cypriots. "From each Turkish or Muslim country
    that he visits, Erdogan asks for support on the Cyprus issue. What
    President Ilham Aliyev said in this regard definitely made Erdogan
    happy," Bulent Alirza said.
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