YEREVAN (ARKA)–”The establishment of united Internet resource for publication and mutual use of Armenian and Turkish jounalists will be implemented in 2010,” said Artak Shakaryan, specialist in Turkic philology to the journalists of ARKA.

“The main problem for the delay of the creation of such a resource is shortage of funding, as daily volume of translation material is rather large – 10-12 pages,” he said. The idea for the creation of an Internet-resource occurred during the meeting of managers and editors of leading Armenian and Turkish mass media in the Turkish city of Bursa on October 13-14, 2009 which took place in the frames of the project funded by the Fund “Eurasia – Cooperation,” Government of Norway and USAID.

The visit of Turkish journalists to Armenia was on December 17-20, 2009. The first step was made in the creation of such an Internet resource.

“Eurasia – Cooperation, funded by the Civilitas Fund, which translates one or two Turkish articles about Armenia and Armenians into Armenian weekly since September 2009, as well as Armenian articles about Turkey into Turkish, publishes them on the site,” he said.

Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey are lacking. The Armenian-Turkish border was closed since 1993 by the official initiative of Ankara.

The complicated relations between the two countries were due to the fact that Ankara supported Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict and also an acute reaction of Turkey on the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire.