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SARKISIAN INVITES TURKEY’S GUL TO FOOTBALL MATCH
- Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has invited Turkish President Abdullah Gul to watch a football match in Yerevan, a spokesman said Saturday, despite a diplomatic freeze between the two countries. "The president has invited Turkish President Abdullah Gul to visit Armenia on September 6 to watch the World Cup qualifying match between Armenia and Turkey," Sarkisian's spokesman, Samvel Farmanian, told . There are currently no diplomatic ties between Turkey and Armenia because of disputes over the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early 20th century and over Turkey's support for Azerbaijan, Armenia's arch-foe. There have been recent calls to reopen the border between ex-Soviet Armenia and Turkey to help growing trade ties between the two, which are currently conducted through third countries such as Georgia.
- AFP
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Hrotists was the 12th month in the old Armenian calendar (July 7 to August 5). The name is derived from the Armenian for fire, because it was the hottest time in the year.
- 1827 Russian forces occupy the castle of Abas-Abad.
- 1829 Occupation of Baberd (Baiburt, Western Armenia).
- 1882 Birth of academician Levon Orbeli in Dzakhkadzor. He died in 1958 in St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
- 1915 A victim of the Genocide, Grigor Zohrab (writer and political figure) was tortured and murdered. He was born in 1861.
- 1921 The Red Army reaches Ghapan.
- 1923 Soviet Azerbaijan`s Revolutionary Committee unilaterally decides to dismember Artsakh to create the Autonomous Region of Nagorno Gharabagh. Red Kurdistan is created to separate this new territory from Armenia (by means of the new Lachin and Kelbajar Districts). The Kurdish entity is abolished in 1930 but the separation is maintained in the Stalin Constitution of 1936.
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