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Talking Turkey

Fri, Oct 16 2009 10:00 CET 13971 Views 3 Comments
Talking Turkey

IN ISTANBUL: Greek prime minister George Papandreou, right, who has also taken on his old foreign ministry portfolio, with Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 9.

Talking Turkey

IN ZURICH: Armenia’s foreign minister Edouard Nalbandian, left, and Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu after the October 10 signing of a deal on restoring bilateral relations.

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Anonymous Greek Macedonia Supremacy Fri, Oct 23 2009 17:47 CET

A big smile before a big VETO in december...

Anonymous Aries Fri, Oct 16 2009 19:16 CET

On vera....
We shall see...

Anonymous Aries Fri, Oct 16 2009 19:11 CET

None of them are convinced of the outcome specially Nalbandian.


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