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Turkey and Azerbaijan "Failed States" - hahaha!

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    Armenian Information Centre
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    PRESS RELEASE

    July 23, 2005

    Contact: Aris Babikian
    Turkey and Azerbaijan Failed States

    In its July /August issue Foreign Policy magazine published its first annual
    Failed States Index. Turkey and Azerbaijan are ranked 49 and 50 respectably
    out of 60 countries surveyed. Turkey accumulated 86.1 points and
    Azerbaijan 85.7 points. Armenia was not on the Index.

    Produced by Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace, the ranking measures the
    world's most at-risk countries, according to 12 social, economic, political
    and military indicators. The Failed States Index was compiled using the Fund
    for Peace internationally-recognized Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST).

    According to Fund for Peace, a state is failing when its government is
    losing physical control of its territory or lacks a monopoly on the
    legitimate use of force. Other symptoms of state failure include the erosion
    of authority to make collective decisions, and the loss of the capacity to
    interact in formal relations with other states as a full member of the
    international community. As suggested by the list of 12 indicators,
    extensive corruption and criminal behaviour, large-scale involuntary
    dislocation of the population, widespread violation of human rights, sharp
    economic decline, group-based inequality, and institutionalized persecution
    or discrimination are other hallmarks of state failure. States can fail at
    varying rates of decline through explosion, implosion or erosion.

    The U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned, "Ignoring failed states
    creates problems that sometimes come back to bite us." French President
    Jacques Chirac has spoken of "the threat that failed states carry for the
    world's equilibrium."

    The 2005 Failed States Index is based on a sample of countries deemed to be
    the most vulnerable to violent conflict. The Fund for Peace updated a list
    of vulnerable countries using the "World Conflict and Human Rights Map"
    produced by Leiden University in Holland. The map identifies states with a
    history of high levels of internal violence and political oppression.

    Tens of thousands of articles from global and regional open-sourced media
    were collected from May to December 2004. The Failed States Index will be
    updated annually.

    The Fund for Peace is a non-profit educational, research and advocacy
    organization based in Washington. Its mission is to prevent war and to
    alleviate the conditions that cause war. Since 1996, it has specialized
    primarily on reducing conflict stemming from weak and failing states.

    Foreign Policy is published since 1970 and is a major, award-winning
    magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. It's published by the
    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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