ANKARA: Turkish Armenian Relations: Breaking The Vicious Circle

TURKISH ARMENIAN RELATIONS: BREAKING THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

Journal of Turkish Weekly
May 26 2009

Sabanci University, Communication Center, Bankalar Cad, No.2, Karakoy,
Istanbul

On May 29th, 2009, Friday, the Turkish Economic and Social Studies
Foundation (TESEV) will organize a press conference and a panel on the
TESEV Foreign Policy Programme Publication entitled "Turkish-Armenian
Relations: Breaking the Vicious Circle".

The report that was prepared jointly by TESEV and the Caucasus
Institute has been published from TESEV publications and analyzes
the recent rapprochement process between Turkey and Armenia by
touching upon the latest regional developments and offers some policy
recommendations to both sides.

The report aims to contribute to the latest debates on Turkish-Armenian
relations which is one of the most important foreign policy issues
facing Turkey and Armenia.

The panel to follow the welcoming remarks will be moderated by Mensur
Akgun, Advisor to TESEV Foreign Policy Program.

The speakers of the panel will be Aybars Gorgulu, PhD student at
Sabanci University and Assistant Program Officer at TESEV, Alexander
Iskandaryan, the Director of Caucasus Institute and Richard Giragosian,
the Director of Armenian Center for National and International Studies.