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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A handshake shakes a region | csmonitor.com

"A handshake shakes a region
Turkey's warming with Armenia stirs up ethnic and energy issues in the strategic Caucasus.
By the Monitor's Editorial Board

Make one move in the unstable Caucasus region, and a host of difficult and far-reaching issues get tripped over – ethnic tensions, Russian dominance, and competition over oil and gas.

So the world discovered when Russia's military clashed with tiny Georgia's last August. And so it's discovering again under far more welcome circumstances: a long-awaited warming between Turkey and its Caucasus neighbor, Armenia. "

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