Turkish Press
April 29 2005
Press Review
MILLIYET
ANKARA BEGINS TO REVIEW KOCHARIAN LETTER
Ankara is giving `positive and extensive’ consideration to a letter
sent by Armenian President Robert Kocharian proposing a bilateral
committee, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. In his letter to
Ankara earlier this week, Kocharian proposed that an
intergovernmental committee be set up to discuss ways to normalize
relations between the two countries. `Mr. Kocharian’s letter is being
discussed extensively with a positive view,’ Foreign Ministry
spokesman Namik Tan said. In an earlier letter, Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan called on Kocharian to first establish a joint
committee of scholars from both countries to settle the Armenian
genocide allegations. /Milliyet/