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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Abdullah Gul will travel to Armenia to watch a World Cup qualifier soccer match between the countries’ national teams, his office said Wednesday, in a sign of a thaw in relations between the two historic foes.
Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations because of Turkey’s opposition to Armenia’s occupation of a region of Azerbaijan.
The rivalry also stems from Armenia’s insistence that the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million ethnic Armenians around the time of World War I be recognized as genocide. Turkey says the killings occurred at a time of civil conflict and that the casualty figures are inflated.
