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    YEREVANGELISM

    The Reality-Based Community
    October 9, 2008 Thursday 12:29 AM EST

    Oct. 9, 2008 (The Reality-Based Community delivered by Newstex) --
    No quarrels with Mark's assessment of the politics of recognizing
    the Armenian genocide, other than to note that it may well
    become a non-issue. Not for Armenian-American organizations,
    but for the Armenian and Turkish governments. Unhatched Caucasian
    chickens shouldn't be counted more confidently than any others, but
    Armenia-Turkey relations have been warming at a dizzying pace, with
    Turkish President G???l visiting Yerevan recently. As one Armenian
    analyst observesAnkara and Yerevan are reportedly close to overcoming
    another Turkish precondition for normalizing bilateral ties: an end
    to the decades-long Armenian campaign for international recognition
    of the World War One-era massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
    as genocide.

    The Sargsyan administration seems ready to accept a Turkish proposal
    to form a commission of Turkish and Armenian historians that would
    jointly study the mass killings and deportations. Many in Armenia and
    especially its worldwide Diaspora oppose such a study, saying that
    it would call into question the very fact of what many historians
    consider the first genocide of the 20th century. They also view
    the Turkish proposal as a ploy designed to scuttle the genocide's
    recognition by more foreign nation. Sargsyan appeared to dismiss
    such concerns as he addressed hundreds of influential members of the
    Armenian-American community in New York on September 24. "We must talk
    about all topics," he said. "Only those people who have nothing to say
    and suffer from complexes avoid contacts, conversations." The Turkish
    government, meanwhile, says thatIf we manage to make rapid progress
    in our initiative to solve the problems...then there will be no need
    for third country parliaments to discuss these issues. We can tell
    them: "Mind your own business. Armenia and Turkey are getting along
    well."Let's hope that in 2012 the presidential candidates won't have
    to lie to Armenians or Jews. Newstex ID: TRBC-0001-28628862
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