The Moscow Times

Turkey Warns Deal With Armenia Could Collapse
01 February 2010

LONDON – Efforts to reconcile Turkey and Armenia and open their common
border could fail unless the process is carried out "properly,"
Turkey’s foreign minister said Friday.

"If we are not convinced that the process is being carried out
properly. There is no possibility to carry it forward," Ahmet
Davutoglu told Turkish journalists in London.

Davutoglu’s warning is the strongest response yet from Turkey to an
Armenian court ruling in January that has cast doubt over accords
signed in October. The Constitutional Court reaffirmed the Armenian
government’s obligation to seek recognition of the World War I mass
killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide – a term vehemently
rejected by Turkey.

(Reuters)