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ARMENIANS OF TURKEY PRAY FOR THE SAKE OF ‘ARMENIA OPENING’<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, 03 November 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Armenians of\u00a0Turkey will bless the protocols that Turkey and Armenia signed on\u00a0October 11\u00a0in\u00a0the homeland of\u00a0President Abdullah Gul, Kayseri. Religious ceremony will be\u00a0held in\u00a0the Surp Krikor Lusavoric Armenian Church in\u00a0Kayseri.<\/div>\n
Turkish-Armenians will pray for the sake of\u00a0Turkey-Armenia protocols in\u00a0an\u00a0Armenian church in\u00a0Kayseri. Armenian community will hold the first Sunday prayer in\u00a0the church which is\u00a0newly restored. The prayer will be\u00a0leaded by\u00a0Deputy Patriarch Aram Ateshian.<\/div>\n
TURKEY\u2019S\u00a0SECOND CHURCH GESTURE<\/div>\n
After restoring Armenian Akdamar church spending $1,5\u00a0million, Turkey makes another gesture and restores Surp Krikor Lusarevic Armenian Church in\u00a0Kayseri, which is\u00a0known as\u00a0the first Armenian Church in\u00a0Anatolia.<\/div>\n
The restoration work will be\u00a0completed next week. Surp Krikor Armenian Church Foundation Chairman Zadik Toker invited people of\u00a0Kayseri to\u00a0the opening ceremony of\u00a0the Church next week. Toker said, \u201cOur church is\u00a0very important as\u00a0it\u00a0is\u00a0the first church of\u00a0Armenian people in\u00a0Anatolia. The Church was partially restored in\u00a01996. Icons and themes in\u00a0the church is\u00a0restored in\u00a0accordance with theiroriginals.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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US Armenians hope for failure of Ankara-Yerevan deal<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009<\/div>\n
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ANKARA – H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
American-Armenians and their congressional backers are keen on the \u2018genocide\u2019 recognition, not the creation of normalized ties between Turkey and Armenia, diplomats and experts say. Armenians will try to persuade the world that it’s the Turks that stopped the process, an expert argue Armenian-Americans and their backers in Congress are hoping for the collapse of a normalization deal between Turkey and Armenia so they can continue to lobby for U.S. recognition of what they term the “Armenian genocide,” diplomats and analysts said.<\/div>\n
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The Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers signed historic protocols on Oct. 10 that called for the creation of normal diplomatic relations between the two neighbors and the reopening of their shared land border. Their parliaments must first ratify the deal before the provisions go into effect.<\/div>\n
Before reopening the land border, which has remained closed for 16 years, Turkey wants to see some progress toward the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ankara’s close ally.<\/div>\n
Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Armenian-populated enclave inside Azerbaijan\u2019s borders, has been under Armenian occupation since a war in the early 1990s.<\/div>\n

Reopening border key matter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Yerevan, however, seeks to keep the normalization deal with Turkey and the Nagorno-Karabakh issue as completely separate processes, urging Turkey to reopen the border as soon as possible. Diaspora Armenians, meanwhile, also staunchly oppose any concessions on Karabakh.<\/div>\n
But without progress on the Karabakh matter, it will be extremely difficult for Ankara to move to reopen the border. “If there’s no progress on Karabakh, Turkey simply can’t reopen the border with Armenia, which will effectively mean that the reconciliation process will have failed,” one Washington-based analyst said. “If this happens, it will be important to see which side will be blamed for the derailed process. The Armenians will try to persuade the world that it’s the Turks that stopped the process.”<\/div>\n
In that case, U.S. Armenians and their backers in Congress will seek to punish Turkey in Congress, the analyst said.<\/div>\n

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Armenian efforts in Congress<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A resolution urging the United States to recognize the World War I-era killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide has been pending in the House of Representatives, Congress’ lower chamber, since February.<\/div>\n
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican Senator John Ensign introduced a similar resolution in the Senate, Congress’ upper chamber, last month.<\/div>\n
“Pro-Armenian lawmakers in both sides of Congress will step up efforts for genocide recognition in the event of the collapse of the Ankara-Yerevan deal,” said the analyst.<\/div>\n
“Any formal U.S. genocide recognition would kill the normalization process,” one Turkish diplomat said.<\/div>\n
But U.S. Armenians and their congressional backers are keen on genocide recognition, not the creation of normalized Ankara-Yerevan ties,” said the analyst.<\/div>\n
“So there’s a major trap jeopardizing the reconciliation process, and that trap can be prevented only if there’s progress on the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute,” the analyst said.<\/div>\n
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