Erdem: We Reiterated Our Calls To Armenia For Compromise
11/16/2005
TurkishPress.com
COPENHAGEN - ''We reiterated our calls to Armenia for compromise,'' NATO Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Vahit Erdem said on Wednesday.
NATO Parliamentary Assembly meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark, ended.
''Turkey expressed its wish and will to improve bilateral relations with Armenia. However, Armenia should abide by international rules, change some articles in its constitution, give up showing Eastern Anatolia Region as Armenian territory, and recognize the Kars Treaty,'' Erdem said following the meetings.
Calling on the other member countries to put pressure on Armenia which has occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories and forced nearly 1 million people to leave their homes and become refugees, Erdem indicated that it was Armenia which benefit most from a normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
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TurkishPress.com
COPENHAGEN - ''We reiterated our calls to Armenia for compromise,'' NATO Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President Vahit Erdem said on Wednesday.
NATO Parliamentary Assembly meetings in Copenhagen, Denmark, ended.
''Turkey expressed its wish and will to improve bilateral relations with Armenia. However, Armenia should abide by international rules, change some articles in its constitution, give up showing Eastern Anatolia Region as Armenian territory, and recognize the Kars Treaty,'' Erdem said following the meetings.
Calling on the other member countries to put pressure on Armenia which has occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijani territories and forced nearly 1 million people to leave their homes and become refugees, Erdem indicated that it was Armenia which benefit most from a normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
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Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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