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TURKISH UNIVERSITY TO OFFER ARMENIAN LANGUAGE COURSE
N ew York Times
May 16 2011
By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Published: May 16, 2011
Using a $23,500 grant from the German Marshall Fund~Rs Black Sea Trust,
Kadir Has University in Istanbul plans to begin offering Armenian
language lessons this month.
Serdar Dinler, director of the university~Rs Center for Lifelong
Learning, said by telephone that the course would be taught by a
doctoral candidate from Armenia as part of a cultural exchange between
countries whose ties have been fraught for a century.
~STurkey is becoming an energy-transit corridor and a center for
diplomacy in the region,~T Mr. Dinler said. ~SAlso the Turkish
government has a new ~Qzero problems~R policy with its neighbors, so we
believe that the new generation in Turkey needs to have more dialogue
with neighboring countries, including Armenia, Russia, Iran, Greece,
etc. Knowing the language can only help.~T
Kadir Has is a private university established along the Golden Horn in
1997 and named after its founder, a Turkish automotive magnate.
SUSANNE FOWLER
From: Baghdasarian
N ew York Times
May 16 2011
By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Published: May 16, 2011
Using a $23,500 grant from the German Marshall Fund~Rs Black Sea Trust,
Kadir Has University in Istanbul plans to begin offering Armenian
language lessons this month.
Serdar Dinler, director of the university~Rs Center for Lifelong
Learning, said by telephone that the course would be taught by a
doctoral candidate from Armenia as part of a cultural exchange between
countries whose ties have been fraught for a century.
~STurkey is becoming an energy-transit corridor and a center for
diplomacy in the region,~T Mr. Dinler said. ~SAlso the Turkish
government has a new ~Qzero problems~R policy with its neighbors, so we
believe that the new generation in Turkey needs to have more dialogue
with neighboring countries, including Armenia, Russia, Iran, Greece,
etc. Knowing the language can only help.~T
Kadir Has is a private university established along the Golden Horn in
1997 and named after its founder, a Turkish automotive magnate.
SUSANNE FOWLER
From: Baghdasarian