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    CEMAL USAK: THE WEST AFFECTS ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS NEGATIVELY

    Regnum, Russia
    May 18 2006

    "There are problems between Armenia and Turkey, which originate in the
    far past, but they are solvable," Platform of Inter-Cultural Dialogue
    Secretary General, Vice President of the Istanbul Journalists and
    Writers Foundation Cemal Usak stated to a REGNUM correspondent.

    According to him, Turkey wishes peacefully to live with its neighbors -
    "our problems are the conflict, which originated last century. We want
    peacefully live with Armenia. We have been living with the country
    for many centuries, for a very long history." At the same time,
    Usak stressed that "some partiality of the 1915 Armenian Genocide's
    research hinders" in Armenian-Turkish cooperation. "The problem of
    Genocide should be studied relying upon unbiased sources.

    Armenian politicians and government should be ready to cooperate,"
    he stressed. Answering the question, whether the Turkish government
    itself is ready to have a dialogue and cooperate, Cemal Usak stated
    that "Turks are ready to do it, but pressure of the countries,
    which are not involved in the problem, should be minimal." "It is
    fraught with danger that negotiation process may be broken. Many
    problems appear neither because of Turkey nor of Armenia. Western
    force interferes in the conflict," the deputy president of Istanbul
    Journalist and Writer Foundation believes.

    Speaking about "Western force," Cemal Usak meant, first of all,
    the European Union, which, alongside with many other conditions,
    requested Turkey, which strives for the EU membership, to recognize
    the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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