Bahceli urges Gul to decline Armenian president invitation

In a written statement yesterday, National Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli urged President Abdullah Gul not to accept Armenian President Serzh Sargisian's invitation to watch a football match between the two countries' national teams this weekend in Yerevan. Warning that accepting the invitation would be a "historic mistake," Bahceli said, "The biggest barrier to the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia is Armenia's foreign policy against Turkey." He added, "Armenia has yet to make any changes to that policy."