TUSIAD: "President Gul visiting Yerevan would help normalize Turkish-Armenian relations"

President Abdullah Gul's visiting Yerevan to watch a football match between Turkey and Armenia would help normalize Turkish-Armenian relations, establish dialogue, and solve the problems dividing the two countries through calm and rational understanding, said the Turkish Businessmen's and Industrialists' Association (TUSIAD) yesterday in a statement. Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has invited Gul to visit Yerevan on Saturday to watch a World Cup qualifying match between Turkey and Armenia. The TUSIAD statement added, "The foreign relations of Turkey, which neighbors Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Georgia by land, and Russia by sea, and has a strategic partnership with the US and NATO, and also is part of the Montreux Convention, should be made more multi-faceted, initially in Turkish-European Union relations."