TURKEY WANTS UNBLOCKING OF ITS BORDER WITH ARMENIA
Regnum, Russia
June 7 2006
Turkey wants its border with Armenia to be unblocked, Member of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation (PABSEC) committee on legal and political questions,
member of the Turkish Republican People’s Party, MP Mehmet Sevigen
has announced talking to the press. According to him, Turkey, from
its part, does its best, and Armenia, in its turn, should take all
necessary steps for it. “Armenia should observe the UN resolution
and free Azerbaijani territories occupied by it,” Sevigen declared.
Speaking on the issue of recognizing the Armenian Genocide in the
Ottoman Empire in 1915, Sevigen said “the events of 1915 were not
genocide, but a so-called genocide.” “Armenia should give up claiming
for recognizing the events as genocide. Historians should take this
issue. Turkey declassified its archives dating back to the Ottoman
Empire and invited all historians, for whom this was of interest.
When everything becomes clear, we shall see that things are not what
politicians say today,” Sevigen said.
It is worth mentioning, there are no diplomatic relations between
Turkey and Armenia, and the border between the two countries is
blocked on the initiative of the Turkish side.