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April 24 2014
Turkey to mull next steps after seeing Armenians' reactions
Turkey is waiting to gauge the reaction of Yerevan, the Armenian
diaspora and Turkey's Armenians to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an's recent message on the Armenian issue before taking any new
steps on the matter, according to officials.
Turkey's move is `a call for Armenia that we hope will be answered,'
Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu told reporters late April 23.
Turkey has been working on several confidence-building steps for
preliminary normalization with Armenia in the areas of the economy and
culture before implementing protocols that were signed in 2009 to
establish diplomatic relations and open the countries' sealed borders.
Reopening the long-closed railway link between Kars and Armenia,
producing documentaries on history and uploading Ottoman archives
online are among the issues Turkey has been working on.
Ankara, however, has still made a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem between Azerbaijan and Armenia a prerequisite for approving
the protocols. Normalization with Armenia is not possible without a
solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, ErdoÄ?an told reporters late
April 23.
The reason why Ankara released the statement on April 23, but not
April 24 ` the day Armenians around the world mark the 1915 incidents
` is `to take the first step before developments and conduct a
proactive policy,' a Turkish Foreign Ministry official told the
Hürriyet Daily News.
Ankara aimed to express its view before April 24 so that the statement
could be appraised on its own terms, not as a response to statements
on April 24.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-mull-next-steps-after-seeing-armenians-reactions-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=65507&NewsCatID=510
April 24 2014
Turkey to mull next steps after seeing Armenians' reactions
Turkey is waiting to gauge the reaction of Yerevan, the Armenian
diaspora and Turkey's Armenians to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
ErdoÄ?an's recent message on the Armenian issue before taking any new
steps on the matter, according to officials.
Turkey's move is `a call for Armenia that we hope will be answered,'
Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄ?lu told reporters late April 23.
Turkey has been working on several confidence-building steps for
preliminary normalization with Armenia in the areas of the economy and
culture before implementing protocols that were signed in 2009 to
establish diplomatic relations and open the countries' sealed borders.
Reopening the long-closed railway link between Kars and Armenia,
producing documentaries on history and uploading Ottoman archives
online are among the issues Turkey has been working on.
Ankara, however, has still made a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem between Azerbaijan and Armenia a prerequisite for approving
the protocols. Normalization with Armenia is not possible without a
solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, ErdoÄ?an told reporters late
April 23.
The reason why Ankara released the statement on April 23, but not
April 24 ` the day Armenians around the world mark the 1915 incidents
` is `to take the first step before developments and conduct a
proactive policy,' a Turkish Foreign Ministry official told the
Hürriyet Daily News.
Ankara aimed to express its view before April 24 so that the statement
could be appraised on its own terms, not as a response to statements
on April 24.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-mull-next-steps-after-seeing-armenians-reactions-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=65507&NewsCatID=510