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    TURKEY NOT INTEND TO ESTABLISH DIALOGUE WITH ARMENIA TO DISADVANTAGE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS WITH AZERBAIJAN

    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    Dec 14 2006

    YEREVAN, December 13. /ARKA - Novosty-Armenia/. Turkey does not
    intend to establish relations with Armenia that can deteriorate the
    intergovernmental relations with Azerbaijan, Mensur Aktun, head of
    the department for foreign policy of the Turkish Economic and Social
    Research Foundation (TESEV) reported in Yerevan Monday.

    He said that is why Turkey puts specific conditions in establishing
    intergovernmental relations: progress in the negotiations over the NKR
    conflict and creation of a commission for Armenian-Turkish relations.

    Among positive achievements in the progress of the intergovernmental
    relations, the Turkish expert also mentioned the issue of the Armenian
    Genocide, which is currently actively discussed in Turkey.

    However, he did not use the term "genocide", but the word "tragedy".

    He argued this by saying that "this tragedy" does not fit the
    characteristics of the genocide according to the 1948 Geneva Convention
    on prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide.

    "Turkey's official position is not denial of the tragedy, but
    discussion of the problem," he said.

    The Armenian Genocide is the first one of the 20th century, resulting
    in annihilation of 1.5mln Armenians.
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