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07 June 2006 [15:23] - Today.Az
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 REGNUM, 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.
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