TURKISH TRADE UNION OPPOSES SARGSYAN’S VISIT TO TURKEY

Yerkir
30.09.2009 14:38
Yerevan

Yerevan (Yerkir) – The Kamu-Sen trade union in Turkey is planning to
collect signatures under a petition against Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan’s visit to Bursa. Several other Turkish and Azerbaijani
organizations are assisting the Kamu-Sen to collect the signatures.

The union representative, Selcuk Turkoglu, said that Sargsyan was
invited to the football match between the national teams of the two
countries, however he turned the invitation into a matter of blackmail
and demanded opening the Armenia-Turkey border on the threshold of his
arrival. According to Turkoglu, Turkey is a large country and should
not yield to blackmail of small Armenia. They intend to collect 50,000
signatures within three days and send them to the Turkish parliament,
Turkoglu said.