Turkey-Armenia Border Lost on Google Map

March 18, 2006
zaman.com
By Celil Sagir

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A part of the Turkey-Armenia border does not exist in the world map of the popular Google Earth program.

Indicating the borders with a yellow line, the map shows no sign of a border in the Arpacay region, which constitutes the Armenian border, and that the unfinished border line continues into Turkey up to Cildir Lake.

There is also a gap in the border near the Igdir region, which is very close to Armenia's capital Yerevan.

The map shows the borders and territorial waters of other countries explicitly and carefully with the yellow line. This indicates that the blank in the border does not stem from Arpacay, a local river. It is known that Armenia still preserves some of its demands on Turkish lands.

Is this desire for accuracy, fear or obsession on Turkey's part? Turkey got it right. Armenia will invade Turkey by way of the Google map. May be this is how Armenia got the bird flu through, unknown to Turkey! See HERE.

Google, in a statement clarifying the issue to Zaman, accepted that some data in Google Earth is missing and/or incorrect.

The company maintains the visual data for the maps is provided by third parties and Google does not make any change to them in efforts not to express any particular political or religious view. Google also noted they are working on the issue to rid the maps of any faults and inadequate information.

Turkey must be glad it closed this gap. Now at least Turkey is safe from Armenia for a while. About a year ago Turkey made another discovery that stunned the scientific world and thus overcame another threat. See HERE.

Google Earth, a popular method of allowing people to see even minor streets of big cities, can be downloaded with a program available from http://earth.google.com. MDA Earth Sat, the National Geographic Society and Google own the copyrights for the maps.

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