The Age, Australia
April 26 2010

Turkey peace talks fail

YEREVAN
April 26, 2010

TENS of thousands of Armenians have marked the 95th anniversary of
mass killings under the Ottoman Empire, amid fresh tensions with
Turkey over the collapse of reconciliation efforts.

Talks that started last year fell apart on Thursday,when Armenia
announced that it was halting ratification of agreements normalising
ties.

This year saw the anniversary marked for the first time in Turkey, as
human rights activists marched in Istanbul. In the Armenian capital
Yerevan on Saturday, people marched to lay flowers at a hilltop
memorial to the massacres, which Armenians insist constituted
genocide. Turkey rejects the genocide claim and the dispute has
poisoned relations between the neighbours for decades.

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