{"id":3713,"date":"2008-09-07T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/07\/soccer-diplomacy-brings-turkeys-gul-to-armenia\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T16:08:15","slug":"soccer-diplomacy-brings-turkeys-gul-to-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/07\/soccer-diplomacy-brings-turkeys-gul-to-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer diplomacy brings Turkey&#8217;s Gul to Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters, Saturday September 6 2008 (Recasts with arrival; changes dateline, previous ANKARA)<\/p>\n<p>By Paul de Bendern<\/p>\n<p>YEREVAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkish President Abdullah Gul flew into neighbouring Armenia on Saturday to attend a soccer match he said could help end almost a century of mutual hostility and aid security in the broader Caucasus region.<\/p>\n<p>Attack helicopters escorted Gul&#8217;s jet on its arrival, and police and demonstrators lined the traffic-free streets as his motorcade sped through downtown Yerevan.<\/p>\n<p>Gul is the first Turkish leader to visit Armenia. Ankara and Yerevan have no diplomatic ties but a relationship haunted by the question of whether ethnic Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks during World War One were victims of systematic genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Gul was invited to attend Saturday&#8217;s match at the Hrazdan stadium by his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarksyan, who called for closer ties in a region rocked last month by Russia&#8217;s war with Georgia. The brief conflict raised fears for the security of energy supplies from the Caspian Sea to western Europe.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/feedarticle\/7779045\">Football Feed Article | Football | guardian.co.uk<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters, Saturday September 6 2008 (Recasts with arrival; changes dateline, previous ANKARA) By Paul de Bendern YEREVAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Turkish President Abdullah Gul flew into neighbouring Armenia on Saturday to attend a soccer match he said could help end almost a century of mutual hostility and aid security in the broader Caucasus region. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}