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Monday, February 12, 2007

Turkish military seeks Armenia detente

"Turkish military seeks Armenia detente

The assassination of a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, on 19 January 2007 in Istanbul renewed attention on Turkey's troubled relations with its small neighbour, Armenia.

The record of Turkish-Armenian relations has been blighted by both Ankara's refusal to extend normal diplomatic relations to Yerevan and a trade embargo and transport blockade, imposed on Armenia in 1993 in support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "

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