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    Pan Armenian News

    GERMAN MEDIA: TURKEY FEARS ARMENIAN ISSUE TO PUT OBSTACLES IN WAY TO EU


    29.04.2005 04:10

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ `A chance to normalize the Turkish-Armenian relations was
    missed again', OÖN/Nachrichten online newspaper reported. Despite the fact
    that the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey was an
    occasion to normalize the Armenian-Turkish relations, the reconciliation
    failed. Turkey offered Armenia to form a joint historic commission, however
    Armenian President Robert Kocharian proposed to normalize relations first,
    what was rejected by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the same time the
    international community exerts pressure upon Turkey urging it to acknowledge
    the Armenian Genocide. Turkey's position on the Armenian Genocide
    complicates relations with Armenia. Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc
    rejected to meet with Polish parliamentarians in protest to the adoption of
    the resolution on the Armenian Genocide by the Polish Sejm. In his turn
    Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul stated that the Bundestag debates on
    the Armenian Genocide `will cloud the German-Turkish relations'. Despite
    this Turkey still fears that the Armenian issue will negatively tell on
    Turkey's EU membership negotiations. Moreover, France requested the EU `to
    urge its aspirant to give a fresh estimate to the past'. Presently about 450
    000 Armenians including famous singer Charles Aznavour live in France. In
    his interview with Die Ziet the 80-year-old singer noted that he has been
    dreaming about the reconciliation of Armenia and Turkey for a long time.
    `The longer Turkey retracts the Genocide recognition the longer the past
    will pursue it', Charles Aznavour said.
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