The director Mehmet Binay stumbled on Geben, a village in the Taurus Mountains. One day in October, members of the Armenian community of Istanbul attended the screening. The audience applauded long Mehmet Binay, moved a young Turk sympathizes with the misfortunes of his people..

But they are struggling to put into practice with Armenia. Last October, Ankara and Yerevan have signed two protocols to establish diplomatic relations and reopen their common border. Six months after this approximation then described as historic, the texts have not yet been ratified by both parliaments. For since the Turkish government has added a prior claim of Armenian concessions on Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-majority province of Azerbaijan was the scene of a bloody war after the fall of the USSR. The maneuver was intended to appease the wrath of Baku, Turkic-speaking ally and supplier of gas. In doing so, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power has awakened the nationalist sentiments of its pro-Azerbaijani MPs: the risk is greater than his own troops do derail reconciliation by not following the voting instructions.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now caught between its internal political calculations and international pressure. Serge Sarkisian, the Armenian president, has threatened to reconsider the agreement if the party continued to dither. A few weeks of April 24, the anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this warning has the effect of a shock. commemoration of the massacres of 1915. The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs has sent his number two last Thursday in Yerevan in emergency affirm the determination of Ankara to ratify the Protocols. Erdogan and Sarkissian them, met in Washington earlier this week on the sidelines of the summit on nuclear weapons.

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