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    Thaindian.com, India
    April 24 2010


    Armenian Genocide Issue Rattles Peace Process
    April 24th, 2010 - 7:09 pm ICT by GD

    By Ranjan Bhaduri

    Apr 24, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Armenia declined to the proceedings of peace
    accords with neighboring nation Turkey on Thursday. The USA has been
    trying for some time to make peace among the hostile neighboring
    nations. Predominantly Christian Armenia and Muslim dominated Turkey
    had been at loggerheads with each other for several years. The
    countries agreed to set up diplomatic relations and unseal the border
    last year. It was an effort to overcome the gruesome killing of the
    Armenians in World War One by the Ottoman Turks. However, the process
    was already in turmoil with each country accusing the other of trying
    to set new conditions.

    When Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister said that the peace
    ratification will depend on Armenia striking deal with Turkey's close
    ally Azerbaijan over the controversial area of Nagorno-Karabakh, the
    Armenians got angry. Serzh Sarksyan, the president of Armenia said
    that the country does not want to end the peace process but there was
    no other choice than suspending it for some time. He reiterated in his
    statement that he wants peace. He also added that the peace talks can
    resume when Armenia finds Turkey co operative and the conditions seem
    favorable.

    Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime minister of Turkey said on his part that his
    country too is willing to resume the peace process. However, he did
    not say anything on withdrawing the condition that made the Armenians
    see red. The move by Armenia is being seen y many political veterans
    as a political move to create pressure on Turkey. Turkey still refuses
    to use the term genocide while referring to the Christian Armenians
    who died in partisan fighting in 1915.

    http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/a rmenian-genocide-issue-rattles-peace-process_10035 3234.html
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