{"id":46153,"date":"2010-09-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/24\/armenian-turkish-business-owners-to-build-5-star-hotel\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T11:30:00","slug":"armenian-turkish-business-owners-to-build-5-star-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/24\/armenian-turkish-business-owners-to-build-5-star-hotel.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian, Turkish Business Owners to Build 5-Star Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business owners from Van and the Armenian capital Yerevan have decided to establish a five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Van in an initiative spearheaded by the Van Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or VATSO,\u00a0reports the H\u00fc<\/span>rriyet Daily News & Economic Review.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the H\u00fc<\/span>rriyet, VATSO Chair Zahir Kanda\u015f<\/span>o\u011f<\/span>lu requested support from Armenia and the local Armenian diaspora.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou support us and we shall prepare the climate in which the language of dialogue will flourish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The organization has a department devoted to relations and trade with Armenia. \u201cWe meet together frequently both in Turkey and Armenia,\u201d Kanda\u015f<\/span>o\u011f<\/span>lu said. \u201cThe eastern provinces of Turkey have serious economic problems and a main reason is the closed border with Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Why shouldn\u2019t we do our business freely? Why should we have to spend 48 hours [to reach Armenia] via Georgia, while the distance is only one-and-a-half hours?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kanda\u015f<\/span>o\u011f<\/span>lu said that businessmen from the city have been discussing ways of cooperating with Armenian businessmen.<\/p>\n

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Business figures from the eastern city could import minerals and rock from Armenia while exporting meat and investing in construction, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are lots of things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Business owners from Van and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[16113,16114,13650,13651,15841,15839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}