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Turkey expects to seal deal with Armenia on October 10
Wed Oct 7, 2009 11:11am EDT
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey expects historic accords to normalize ties with Armenia to be signed on Saturday in Switzerland in a step toward ending a century of hostility, senior Turkish government sources said on Wednesday.
Doubts had emerged in diplomatic circles about whether the ceremony would take place because of pressure from the powerful Armenian diaspora, as well as opposition within Armenia and to a certain extent Turkey.
"There are no changes to those plans," a senior Turkish government source, referring to the planned signature of protocols in Zurich on October 10, told Reuters. Another government source, who also declined to be named, agreed.
Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic ties because of hostility stemming from the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One. Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with fellow Muslim Azerbaijan, then at war with Armenian-backed ethnic Armenians.
Turkey and Armenia agreed on August 31 to sign, within six weeks, two protocols on the establishment of diplomatic ties, opening a common border and for historians to investigate the events surrounding the killings of Armenians in 1915.
But Armenia was taken by surprise when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced in New York that the agreements would be signed on October 10.
Turkish Foreign Ministry officials later told reporters each country's foreign minister would attend the ceremony in Zurich.
Armenian officials were not available for comment.
Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan is on a week-long intercontinental charm offensive to calm concerns in the Armenian diaspora over the historic thaw with Turkey. Diplomatic observers also fear the signing could be disrupted by demands by some Turks for a resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Armenian nationalists demand that Turkey acknowledge the 1915 killings as genocide. Ankara rejects the term genocide, saying that many people died on both sides of the conflict.
Once the protocols are signed they must be approved by the respective parliaments. This leaves open the possibility that either side delays the approval in case they face unexpected domestic opposition.
NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Hanging over efforts to re-establish ties is the specter of one of the bloodiest and most intractable conflicts sparked by the demise of the Soviet Union.
Armenia went to war with neighboring Azerbaijan in the early 1990s over the mountainous territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave located within Azerbaijan's internationally recognized borders. Some 30,000 people died.
International mediators are trying to put pressure on Armenia to negotiate with Azerbaijan over Karabakh as part of a wider attempt to secure a lasting peace in the region. Continued...
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