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Turkey and Armenia have agreed to name special envoys to try and mend their historically hostile relations and bring economic prosperity to the troubled Caucasus region.
Turkey and Armenia have agreed to name special envoys to try and mend their historically hostile relations and bring economic prosperity to the troubled Caucasus region.
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David Barchard, who has died aged 73 following an accident, was the leading British specialist on Turkey. Incisive, eloquent and with a masterly command of detail, he honed his ideas in English and in Turkish through hours of telephone calls to friends and contacts. Worked up, these would then appear in outstanding articles, political commentaries and research papers, a steady stream of work maintained over four decades.
His deep knowledge was evident in his obituary writing for the Guardian, for which he constructed accomplished accounts of leading Turkish political figures.
He first wrote for the paper in the aftermath of the 1980 coup in Turkey, while resident in the country. Fiercely indignant about the human rights abuses he saw at the time, he gave full vent to his feelings in his articles.