Wednesday, April 05, 2006

The last Iron Curtain

Armenia's deputy foreign minister on April 4 described the Turkish-Armenian border as the last vestige of the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe. To this day, the border remains firmly closed. Arman Kirokisyan was speaking at an international conference in Prague organized by the Czech parliament on the Armenian massacre of 1915-16. Ninety years after the killings and mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians from eastern Turkey by Ottoman troops, the Turkish government continues to deny a genocide ever happened. The issue threatens to become a major stumbling block on the path to Turkey's entry into the European Union.

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3 Comments:

At April 06, 2006 8:16 AM, Blogger Farid said...

completely bull shit!there are no facts or anything. it is all economical. armenia needs money,thats it. they will destroy themselves with this politics. g luck to them

 
At April 06, 2006 9:16 AM, Blogger Solnitchka said...

Or it is bull shit from Turkish side because they don't want to pay. Farid, we two will probably never agree on this. Let's just accept that we have different opinions and not talk about it anymore.

 
At April 06, 2006 4:34 PM, Anonymous IgoR said...

Genocide was bullshit? What about those pictures

 

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