A bit of news from our neighborhood (this is a brief excerpt from an article in The Guardian which I thought was particularly good, not least because it quotes two people I've worked with on Armenia-Turkey programs!):
The first tentative steps towards healing generations of bitterness between Turkey and Armenia will take place in a football stadium in Yerevan tomorrow when the two nations meet in a World Cup qualifier watched by their respective presidents.
In what has been termed "football diplomacy", Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul, will attend the match after accepting an invitation from his Armenian counterpart, Serge Sarkisian, in an attempt to kick-start relations between the two neighbours, who do not have diplomatic ties.
We'll be at the match tomorrow!
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