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Headlines for September 05, 2008

HURRIYET: GUL TOOK BRAVE AND HISTORIC DECISION
President Abdullah Gul will on Saturday become the first Turkish head of state to visit Armenia, his office said, taking an important step to restart diplomatic relations between two neighboring countries, ...
YURI DZIDTSOITY: MANY STATES WOULD RECOGNIZE SOUTH OSSETIA IF NOT FOR U.S.
Many states will recognize South Ossetia sooner or later, vice speaker of the South Ossetian parliament Yuri Dzidtsoity said when commenting on Nicaragua’s recognition of South Ossetia. “We knew that ...
BAKO SAHAKYAN: ARTSAKH INDEPENDENCE DOESN’T HAVE ALTERNATIVES AND CAN’T BE A MATTER OF SPECULATIONS
On 4 September, Nagorno Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan held a working meeting with members of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, heads of diplomatic and consular missions of Armenia abroad. A wide range ...
ANCA: GUL SHOULD ATTEND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN YEREVAN
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), expressed hopes and reservations regarding Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul’s impending visit to Armenia, at the invitation by Armenian President Serzh ...
ERDOGAN: TWO PRESIDENTS WOULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DISCUSS
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday he thinks favorably about President Abdullah Gul’s decision to travel to Armenia on the occasion of a soccer game between the national teams of ...
TURKISH ARMENIANS BELIEVE FOOTBALL MATCH TO IMPROVE RELATIONS BETWEEN TWO STATES
The Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul as well as some Armenian citizens of Turkey have lauded President Abdullah Gul’s decision to travel to Yerevan to watch a match between the Turkish and Armenian national ...
WILL ARMENIA COMPROMISE FOR OPENING OF BORDERS?
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It is premature to speak about opening of the Armenian-Turkish border, but it can happen one day, independent Turkish political scientist Mehmet Bekaroglu said. For a long period Armenia has been in ...
GUL’S VISIT WILL HARDLY BREAK ICE BETWEEN YEREVAN AND ANKARA
Gul’s decision to visit Yerevan was rather a surprise, said an expert at Russian Strategic Culture Foundation. “Anyway, both sides have taken steps to normalize humanitarian and public relations. Besides, ...
TIME FOR OPENING ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER HASN’T COME YET
A visit is not beginning of talks, said Svante Cornell, research director of the Stockholm Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. It should be taken as a gesture, according to him. “Turkey will not change ...
U.S. POLITICAL PROJECTS USUALLY CAUSE DESTABILIZATION IN CAUCASUS
The U.S. is the most interested side in normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, expert at the Russian Strategic Culture Foundation Andrey Areshev told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “However, if ...
ETIENNE MAHCUPYAN: RAPPROCHEMENT IS NOT RECONCILIATION
While international diplomacy welcomes the visit of Turkish President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan on September 6, comments by observers are more political than sporting. Rapprochement between Armenia and ...
EU FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS SITUATION IN CAUCASUS
A two-day meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Avignon will focus on the situation in the Caucasus and hammer out details of a planned civilian mission to Georgia. The mission would send about 200 EU ...
NO BREAKTHROUGH IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS EXPECTED FROM GUL’S VISIT
No breakthrough in Armenian-Turkish relations is expected from Abdullah Gul’s visit to Yerevan, Caucasus Institute Director Alexander Iskandaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “Gul’s problems are ...
GEORGIA-RUSSIAN WAR DEVALUED INTERNATIONAL LAW AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, BAKU SAYS
The point is that the defeat of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on the South-Ossetian and Abkhazian fronts reduced to mere theory Azerbaijan’s plans to re-take the lands by use of force,” Rasim ...
TURKISH DAILY NEWS: GUL’S VISITING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL WOULD BE A LEAP FORWARD
“By visiting Yerevan on Saturday, Gul will in fact take a giant step for the future. I don’t think that Gul will visit the genocide monument, but if he were to, history could have opened the doors wide. ...