Armenian Turkish Dialogue: Forbidden Territory

By Carl Robichaud If you entered Istanbul’s annual book fair, descended a flight of stairs, navigated your way through the jostling crowd, took a right at the twelfth aisle, continued past kiosks — filled with vividly illustrated children’s books, language guides promising fluency, books on architecture, design and fashion — you might stop at the
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Turks and Armenians agree; Karabagh is not a religious issue

By Levon Marashlian Virtually never do Turks and Armenians find common ground on anything. But rare glimmers of possible agreement could be detected in the media between January and March 1990. Hurriyet, Turkey’s largest daily paper, repeated Turkish writer Mehmet Ali Birand’s view in Milliyet, that the crisis in Azerbaijan and Armenia is “not” a
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