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    TURKISH PRESIDENT TO VISIT ARMENIA

    RTT News
    Sept 3 2008
    NY

    (RTTNews) - Turkish President Abdullah Gul is to travel to Armenia
    to watch a weekend soccer match between the national teams of the
    two countries, said a statement issued by his office on Wednesday.

    According to the statement, President Gul will attended the World Cup
    qualifier match between the football teams of the two countries in the
    Armenian capital of Yerevan on Saturday, along with his counterpart
    Serge Sarkisian.

    The statement also expressed hope that Gul's visit to Armenia would
    improve the relations between the two neighboring countries by
    promoting better understanding and friendship.

    This announcement marks a historic move as both countries have cut
    off official ties and closed their mutual border to each other after
    the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a Turkish ally, in the 1990s.

    Moreover, the Turks had rejected an Armenian demand to classify the
    killings of some 1.5m of its citizens by Ottoman Turks between 1915
    and 1917 as genocide, sparking the diplomatic tussle.

    Turkey acknowledges that that many Armenians were killed by Turks
    between 1915 and 1917, but maintains that the deaths were a part of
    World War I.
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