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Interfax, Russia
Oct 29 2010
Turkish opposition figure detained in Yerevan - source
Tuna Beklevic, head of the Turkish opposition party Strong Turkey, has
been detained in Armenia, sources there told Interfax on Friday.
Beklevic held a press conference in Yerevan on Friday at which he said
that members of Strong Turkey had succeeded in crossing the
Turkish-Armenian border guarded by Russian troops at the beginning of
October. Later, this statement was refuted by representatives of the
border department of Russia's Federal Security Service in Armenia.
At the press conference Beklevic showed photos that he claimed had
been taken on Armenian territory.
He favors the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
Earlier the Armenian Foreign Ministry refused to receive members of
Strong Turkey who had come to Yerevan.
From: A. Papazian
Oct 29 2010
Turkish opposition figure detained in Yerevan - source
Tuna Beklevic, head of the Turkish opposition party Strong Turkey, has
been detained in Armenia, sources there told Interfax on Friday.
Beklevic held a press conference in Yerevan on Friday at which he said
that members of Strong Turkey had succeeded in crossing the
Turkish-Armenian border guarded by Russian troops at the beginning of
October. Later, this statement was refuted by representatives of the
border department of Russia's Federal Security Service in Armenia.
At the press conference Beklevic showed photos that he claimed had
been taken on Armenian territory.
He favors the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.
Earlier the Armenian Foreign Ministry refused to receive members of
Strong Turkey who had come to Yerevan.
From: A. Papazian