OUTSIDE MEDDLING WOULD WORSEN TURKISH-ARMENIAN TIES: PATRIARCH
Hurriyet Daily News
Dec 27 2011
Turkey
Third-party interference in debates over the events of 1915 will
“freeze” relations between Turkey and Armenia, acting Turkish-Armenian
Patriarch Aram AteÅ~_yan said today.
“We are in favor of solving our problems in our own country,” AteÅ~_yan
told journalists while answering questions on the French Parliament’s
passing of a bill penalizing the denial of 1915 events as genocide.
“Third parties should stay out of this matter. Their interference
would create a chill and freeze ties between Turkey and Armenia.”
AteÅ~_yan said foreign countries were following their own agendas
when they interfere in Turkish-Armenian relations and added that he
did not want to comment on such affairs.
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