TURKEY PRESIDENT SAYS VISITS ARMENIA FOR SOCCER GAME

Reuters
Sept 3 2008
UK

ANKARA, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul will visit
Armenia at the weekend for a soccer match, the president’s office
said on Wednesday, in a major diplomatic step for the two states
which have no diplomatic ties.

Turkey severed diplomatic relations with Armenia in protest against
Yerevan’s control of Nagorno-Karabakh region over which Armenia fought
Turkey’s ally Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s.

Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital
Yerevan on September 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World
Cup. (Reporting by Selcuk Gokoluk; editing by Sami Aboudi)