"Why Are We So Anxious About Armenia?
Published: 5/19/2005
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BY ISMET BERKAN
RADIKAL- There has been a great revival in Turkey�s initiatives concerning Armenia with recent efforts from both Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Foreign Ministry. The reason for this revival isn’t developments in Armenia or on the international stage, but Ankara’s initiatives. Actually, Turkish-Armenian relations are the same as they were, for example, five years ago. In other words, at that time both Armenia and other countries under its influence wanted Turkey to open its border with Armenia, and today the same thing holds. At that time, Turkey said the reason for the closed border came from the Nagorno-Karabagh issue and Armenia’s invasion of Azerbaijani territories; it’s saying the same thing today."
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