{"id":87948,"date":"2011-04-21T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=87948"},"modified":"2011-04-21T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T06:53:01","slug":"armenia-turkey-relations-looking-up-but-armenia-azerbaijan-relations-increasingly-worse-sabine-freizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/21\/armenia-turkey-relations-looking-up-but-armenia-azerbaijan-relations-increasingly-worse-sabine-freizer.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenia-Turkey Relations Looking Up, But Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations Increasingly Worse: Sabine Freizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian journalists in Istanbul yesterday met with International Crisis Group (ICG) Europe Program Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/en\/about\/staff\/field\/europe\/sabine-freizer.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Sabine Freizer<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (sometimes anglicized as Sabina Fraser) and ICG&#8217;s Turkish analysts as part of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.am\/turkey-armenia\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Dialogue-Building between Turkey and Armenia<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8221; project organized by the Yerevan-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internews.am\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Internews Media Support NGO<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and the Istanbul-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpotcenter.org\/about\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>GPOT (Global Politics Trend Center)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, reports local daily Aravot (&#8220;Morning&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sabine Freizer didn&#8217;t consider a short war between Azerbaijan and Armenia to be likely: &#8216;Azerbaijan believes that it will win the war, in case of a quick attack, they&#8217;ll take a few low regions, Aghdam, Fizuli, but I think that will never happen because if the Azerbaijanis suddenly attack, the Armenians will respond, and there will be a complicated situation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freizer is confident that Turkey also doesn&#8217;t want war. As for normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia, the International Crisis Group [Europe Program] Director noticed significant progress: &#8216;Of course, the borders are not yet open, but Turks and Armenians are in a dialogue, they attempt to understand each other, while in the &#8216;part of&#8217; Azerbaijan and Armenia, there is no progress; moreover, everything becomes increasingly worse, since Azerbaijan claims theirs and Armenians only think of Karabakh&#8217;s independence. This is a disturbing circumstance for us&#8217;,&#8221; reports Aravot.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian journalists in Istanbul yesterday met with International Crisis Group (ICG) Europe Program Director Sabine Freizer and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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],"tags":[22103,10665,11613,19467,25256,25255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87948"}],"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=87948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}