Armenia lifts Turkish visas for football match

[vasbourakan1]

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+1

If only I had a way of watching the match!

if you have a direct satellte reception, there would not be a problem, unless there are restrictions in installing dishes where you live. by these days all the system cost peanuts

[North Pole]

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Turkish President Gül announces landmark visit to Armenia

Great news!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül

ANKARA – Turkish Daily News


In a major diplomatic step to normalize ties with regional Armenia, Turkey’s President Abdullah Gül will visit Yerevan on Saturday to hold talks with his Armenian counterpart Serge Sarkissian on the margin of a football match, his office announced late Wednesday.

"A visit around this (World Cup 2010 qualifying) match can create a new climate of friendship in the region," it said. "It's with this in mind that the president has accepted (Sarkissian's) invitation."

Gül is expected to stay around six hours in Yerevan and to leave the country after his meeting with Sarkissian and watching Turkey-Armenia football match. The two countries’ diplomats met on Wednesday in Yerevan to discuss both the security measures and the content of the Saturday talks.

Turkish part will explain Armenia its plan to restore stability in the Caucasus region and will invite Armenia to join it. Gül will also repeat Turkey’s proposal to establish a joint committee composed of independent historians to study the 1915-1917 incidents.

Turkey cut diplomatic ties and closed border with Armenia after Yerevan occupied Ankara’s closest ally Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabagh region. In recent years Armenia increased its efforts to press Turkey to recognize the deaths of Armenian civilians in 1915-1917 as genocide.

Gül's trip represents a key step towards ending almost a century of animosity over the massacre of Armenians under the erstwhile Turkish Ottoman Empire.

READ MORE -- http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/a...enewsid=114320

[Kanki]

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Maybe Gül wants to be killed...
If Turks want to commit suicide , they can go Yeravan.

[North Pole]

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Maybe Gül wants to be killed...
If Turks want to commit suicide , they can go Yeravan.

You are an agent provocateur, Kanki.

[Yedtarts]

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Maybe Gül wants to be killed...
If Turks want to commit suicide , they can go Yeravan.

Killed by whom, Armenians? Turks are masters in killing, he don’t need to come to Armenia for that. Remembering Hrant Dink

If Turks want to commit suicide all they need to do is just put a gun to your heads and pull the trigger?

Տխմար

[North Pole]

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ARMENIAN FM AND TURKISH DIPLOMAT DETAIL GUL’S VISIT

03 September, 2008

On September 3 Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Ambassador Unal Chevikyoz, the special envoy of Turkey's President Abdullah Gul.

The parties dwelt on President Abdullah Gul’s visit to Armenia to watch the forthcoming World Cup 2010 qualifier between the national football teams of the two countries.
Reference was made to Turkey’s initiative to establish a stability and cooperation platform in the Caucasus. Minister Nalbandian noted that Armenia has always welcomed any effort targeted at the reinforcement of trust, deepening of security and cooperation in the region, and the idea of the stability and sooperation platform in the Caucasus can only be hailed.

Minister Nalbandian said Armenia has always stood ready to establish friendly ties with all the countries of the region and to ensure lasting peace in the Caucasus.
Edward Nalbandian and Unal Chevikyoz exchanged views on a number of international, regional and bilateral issues.

http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&id=63688

TURKS TO ARRIVE ON THE EVE
03 September, 2008

The Turkish national team headed by Fatih Terim continues preparing for the World Cup 2010 qualifier due in Armenia on September 6.
Presently they are staying in Istanbul’s “Swissotel” and training in “Ali Sam Yen” stadium.
The Turkish delegation intends to arrive in Yerevan on September 5. They will stay in “Golden Palace”. Later in the day the team will hold a single training in “Hrazdan” stadium.

Afterwards, Fatih Terim will give a press conference.
Hamit Altintop, Nahit Kahvechi, Sabri Sarioghlu, Emre Gyungyor and Saner Erkin will not participate in the match because of traumas.
The Turkish delegation will leave for Istanbul immediately after the match to get ready for a September 10 meeting with Belgium.

Tomorrow, at 12.15-12.30 Armenian journalists will have a chance to talk to the footballers at “Hrazdan” stadium.

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The half-back of the Armenian football team Arthur Voskanian who presently plays in Belorussia’s “Vitebsk” considers the upcoming Armenia-Turkey football match an important event in Armenia’s football history.

“We must exert all our efforts to win the match which can be equaled with a final meeting,” said Voskanian.

The footballer thinks there will hardly be a vacant seat in Hrazdan stadium on September 6. “The role of football fans is very important for our team. I am optimist and believe they will be content with the match.”

The recent victory at the Armenia-Turkey football match between the youth teams encouraged our national team. Our boys earned praise. They demonstrated will-power wining the match at the last minutes. The victory had its psychological impact on our national team.”

Arthur Voskanian notes that Armenia played skillfully against mighty rivals like Poland and Portugal. “Turkey is also a strong rival as it features footballers from European leading clubs.”

http://www.a1plus.am/en/?page=issue&iid=63704

[North Pole]

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Killed by whom, Armenians? Turks are masters in killing, he don’t need to come to Armenia for that. Remembering Hrant Dink

If Turks want to commit suicide all they need to do is just put a gun to your heads and pull the trigger?

Տխմար

Don't answer to her!

[North Pole]

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From Turks US:

Turkish president Gul to pay a historic visit to Armenia on Saturday

Thursday, September 04 2008 @ 07:49 AM

President Abdullah Gul will on Saturday become the first Turkish head of state to visit Armenia, his office said, taking an important step to restart diplomatic relations between two neighboring countries.

Gul will go to Yerevan to attend a football match between the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations

Armenia's President Serge Sarkisian invited Gul last month to attend the qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup finals to mark "a new symbolic start in the countries' relations". Turkish diplomats and security officials have been in Yerevan this week making final preparations.

"A visit around this match can create a new climate of friendship in the region," the Turkish presidency said in a statement posted on its website. "It is with this in mind that the president has accepted the invitation.

"This match could lift the obstacles blocking the coming together of two peoples who share a common history and can create a new foundation," it said.

The Turkish presidency said it hoped the visit means "an opportunity for a better mutual understanding."
Gul will arrive in Yerevan two hours before the match and go directly to the office of Sargsyan. The meeting of two presidents is expected to last for one hour.

Turkish delegation will leave Yerevan as soon as the match ends.

Turkey is among the first countries that recognized Armenia when it declared its independency. However there is no diplomatic relations between two countries, as Armenia presses the international community to admit the so-called "genocide" claims instead of accepting Turkey's call to investigate the allegations, and its invasion of 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory despite U.N. Security Council resolutions on the issue.


ARMENIA WELCOMES

Sarkisian earlier welcomed a Turkish proposal for a new forum in the volatile Caucasus region after meeting a senior Turkish envoy to prepare the visit.

"Armenia has always welcomed and welcomes all efforts directed at the strengthening of confidence, stability and security, and at deepening cooperation in the region," Sarkisian said in a statement after meeting Gul's special envoy Unal Cevikoz.

"The winner of Saturday’s game is clear today. The winners of this match are the Turkish and Armenian people," he wrote.


read more -- http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20080904074934391




11 hours ago: Armenian national team goalkeeper Roman Berezovsky gives an interview to a Turkish television channel in Yerevan on September 4, 2008. Turkish President Abdullah Gul on September 6 becomes Turkey's first head of state to visit Armenia, but his bid to ease decades of hostility over massacres under the Ottoman empire angered Turkish nationalists. Gul will go to Yerevan to attend a football match between the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations and remain deeply divided over Armenia's international campaign to have the massacres classified as "genocide".

[Stark Evade]

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I think it is a great idea. This is the younger generation of Turks we are talking about here. The ones who are completely uneducated by their government of the problems that concern us. If these events progress in a civil manner, it is more likely that we would be inspiring the upcoming generation in Turkey to be more willing to give us the benefit of the doubt.

Also, they will be spending money while they are in Armenia which helps the economy. If they enjoy their stays, they may even go back and spend more. It's good stuff.

But it is very important that things go smoothly. Fortunately the welcome that the Juniors football team had a few weeks ago was very good. And that puts me a bit at ease. This is at a drastically different scale though.

[Federate]

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Our officials in Yerevan seem to like blowing Turkish c0ck, did anyone see how they changed the official logo of the Football Federation of Armenia last month? It no longer has Ararat on it... it does not even have Armenian alphabet on it. Just in time for our game with Turkey? Very shameful if we are trying to please those vermin.

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