Friday, April 29, 2005

Turkey edges towards Armenia ties

Turkey has said it is ready to build "political" relations with Armenia while experts investigate Yerevan's claims of a World War I "genocide".
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "political relations could be established" during joint studies.
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Mr Erdogan told Turkey's Milliyet newspaper that the establishment of formal diplomatic relations would depend on Armenia showing "sincerity" towards undertaking a joint investigation.

Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4497519.stm
Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...].The bold emphasis is mine.

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