Final Activity Report
Project: Armenian-Turkish Relations:
From Interstate Dispute to Neighborliness
By: Ruben Safrastyan
February 27, 2003 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “The
Future President of Armenia should have competent knowledge of geopolitics,
thinks Ruben Safrastyan” (interview
in Russian)
March 3-13, 2003 Attended
at the 14th International Policy Fellows Seminar, CPS-OSI-CEU,
Budapest, Hungary
March 16, 2003 Nominated
as the MP candidate from the Christian-Democratic Union of Armenia in the last
general election in Armenia
(http://www.noyan
tapan.am/eng/news/17.03.2003/Politics/a4.html)
March 21, 2003
Attended at the specialized policy seminar
on “Armenia and Current Regional Realities”, organized by the National
Citizens’ Initiative, Yerevan, Armenia.
Presented
Paper: “Armenian-Turkish Relations in the Context of the Iraqi
War”
March 21, 2003 Noyan Tapan News Agency: “Expert
Says No Changes in the Armenian-Turkish Relations Expected” (interview)
(http://www.noyantapan.am/eng/news/21.03.2003/Politics/a10.html)
March 21, 2003 Arminfo News Agency: “Aggravation of
Turkish-American Relations May Contribute to Official Recognition of Armenian
Genocide” (interview)
(http://www.arminfo.am/news.htm)
March 22, 2003 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “THE HEAD OF TURKISH DEPARTMENT OF THE
INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES RUBEN SAFRASTYAN STRESSES THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF POLICY OF
TURKEY” (interview in Russian)
March 22, 2003 Orran
Daily: “National
Citizens’ Initiative Examines Iraq and Regional Implications” (information on my
paper)
(http://www.orrandaily.am/en/2003/03/22/)
March 22, 2003 Hayots
Ashkhar Daily: “The Smell of Adventurism” (information on my paper in Armenian)
(http://www.hayashkharh.am/index2.php?dbname=3_2003&num=3_22&id=17#id=16)
March 22, 2003 Aravot
Daily: “Turkey begins to act independently” (information on my paper in Armenian)
(http://www.aravot.am/2003/aravot_arm/March/22/u02.htm)
March 22-24, 2003 Or
Newspaper: “Iraq and We” (information on my paper in Armenian)
March 24, 2003 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “THE MOST IMPORTANT AND THE ACTUAL
GOAL OF TURKEY – TO HINDER BUILDING OF THE KURDISH STATE,
consider Head of Turkish Department of Institute of Oriental Studies of ANAS
Ruben Safrastyan” (interview in Armenian)
March 26, 2003 Respublika
Armenia, Bi-Weekly Newspaper: “His Own Interest” (interview in Russian)
March 27-30, 2003 Attended at
the International Scientific Conference “Vectors of Violence: War,
Revolution, and Genocide: Turkish-Armenian Workshop”, organized by the University of
Minnesota, USA.
Presented
Paper:
“Armenian Genocide Studies in Armenia: A Paradigm Reconstruction Attempt”
(http://esc.cla.umn.edu/TurkishArmenianMeeting.htm.)
March 30, 2003 Vasn
Hayuthyan Weekly, p.4: “On the National Question in Turkey” (Article in
Armenian)
April 9, 2003 Noyan
Tapan News Agency: “Academic Circles in U.S. Begin To Show Interest in
Armenian Genocide: Ruben Safrastian” (interview) (http://www.noyantapan.am/eng/news/09.04.2003/Politics/a96.html)
April 9, 2003 Noyan Tapan News Agency: "Turkey Has No
Potential For Strengthening at the Current Stage: Turkologist” (interview)
(http://www.noyan-tapan.am/eng/news/09.04.2003/Politics/a3.html)
April 14, 2003 The
Highlights Weekly, p. 14: "Turkey Has No Potential For Strengthening
at the Current Stage: Turkologist” (interview)
April 21, 2003 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “FOR
ARMENIANS THE STRAGGLE FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE GENOCIDE - THE SACRED DUTY OF
OUR
DAYS GENERATIONS”
(interview)
April 21, 2003 The Highlights Weekly, p. 18: “Academic Circles
in U.S. Begin To Show Interest in Armenian Genocide: Ruben Safrastian”
(interview)
April 23, 2003 Respublika Armenia
Bi-Weekly: “Our
victory is real” (interview in Russian)
April 23-May 23, 2003 Participated in the last general
election campaign in Armenia as MP candidate from the Christian-Democratic
Union of Armenia
April 24, 2003 Orran Daily: “Interview with Ruben
Safrastian of the National Academy of Sciences” (interview)
(http://www.orrandaily.am/en/2003/04/24/safrastian.html)
April 2003 Noyev Kovcheg Monthly Newspaper, Moscow (N 3): “The Most Important and Actual
Goal of Turkey ” (interview in Russian)
(http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/article.asp?n=61&a=27)
May 2003 Noyev Kovcheg Monthly Newspaper, Moscow (N 4): “The
Sacred Duty of Our Days Generations” (interview in Russian)
(http://www.noev-kovcheg.ru/article.asp?n=62&a=17)
May
2003 Published
book: “It Is Impossible To Set Up Barriers between Neighbors in the XXI
Century…”: Armenia and Turkey in Regional Developments (Articles and Interviews
of 2001-2003), Yerevan: Zangak-97, 2003, 95 p.
June 2-11, 2003 Attended at the 15th
International Policy Fellows Seminar, CPS-OSI-CEU, Budapest, Hungary
June 5-6, 2003 Attended
as observer at the meeting of Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission
(TARC), Istanbul, Turkey
(http://www.noyan-tapan.am/eng/news/09.06.2003/Politics/a4.html,
www.defacto.am)
June 17, 2003 Parlamentskaya Gazeta,
Moscow: “IN THE EPICENTER OF VIRTUAL SECURITY: PROFESSOR RUBEN SAFRASTYAN
THINKS THAT IF ALL NATIONS LOCATED IN THE CAUCASIAN REGION MANAGE
TO SETTLE ALL CONFLICTS PEACEFULLY THE NECESSITY OF CREATING A NEW SECURITY SYSTEM WILL NOT BE AS TOPICAL”
(interview in Russian)
July 1, 2003 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “PENTAGON INTERESTED IN OPENING OF
ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER…” (Information on my book)
August 1,
2003 Agos
Newspaper, Istanbul: “Ruben Safrastyan assembled his approaches to
Turkish-Armenian Relations in a book, published in Armenia: “Wall between
neighbors is impossible”” (Review of my book in Turkish)
August 7-29, 2003 Research
trip to Istanbul, Turkey
September 2003 Finished
work on the drafts of research paper and policy paper
September 15-20, 2003 Attended at the International Congress “Armenian Studies
Today and Development Perspectives”, Yerevan, Armenia
Co-chair
of Round Table “Armenia in the System of Regional Developments”
Presented
Paper: “The
Turkish Policy in the Southern Caucasus and the Factor of the Republic of
Armenia”
September 29-30, 2003 Attended at the International Conference “The South
Caucasus: Regional Security and Stability”, Yerevan, Armenia
Mediator
of Round Table “The Effectiveness of the Peacekeeping Efforts in the South
Caucasus”
September 30, 2003 Golos
Armenii Newspaper, “Infinitely Devoted to Armenia (Prof. H. Injikyan)”
(article in Russian)
October 10, 2003 Attended
at the Workshop and Round Table “The Problems of Re-opening Armenian-Turkish
Border”, organized by myself in American University, Yerevan, Armenia
Presented
Paper: “The Geopolitics of Armenian-Turkish Border”
November 2003 Republican:
The Republican Party of Armenia, 2003, N. 8, p. 6-9, “The USA „Global“
Strategy Stages and Turkey” (article in Armenian)
(http://www.hhk.am/pdf/hhk_n8.pdf)
November 17-18, 2003 Attended
at the Meeting of “Group of Opinion Formers” from Armenia and staff of NATO
Headquarters and SHAPE, Brussels and Mons, Belgium
November 2003 ADK 119/120, Jg.
2003, Heft 1 & 2, S. 23/24,
„Armenien & Turkei - Zwischenstaatliche Beziehungen / Eine
Interpretation“ (article in German)
(http://www.deutsch-armenische-gesellschaft.de/dag/ratt.htm)
December 2003 Republican: The
Republican Party of Armenia, 2003, N. 9, p. 24-29, “On the Problem of
Ideological Substantiation of Turkish Foreign Policy: The Eurasia
Conception” (article in
Armenian)
(http://www.hhk.am/pdf/hhk_n9.pdf)
February 7, 2004 De
facto Information-Analytical Agency: “It will not be Jerk movements in the
countries of Southern Caucasus. Still” (interview in Russian)
February 23, 2004 The
Highlights, Weekly, p.1-2: “Europeans realize that Turkey presents danger
for them” (interview)
February 2004 Appointed
Professor at the Department of International Relations, “Hrachya Acharyan”
Private University, Yerevan, Armenia
March 21-28, 2004 Attended
at the 16th International Policy Fellows Seminar, CPS-OSI-CEU,
Budapest, Hungary
April 2004 Finished
work on the final drafts of research paper and policy paper