As Obama Seeks To Stop Genocide in Darfur, Calls Intensify for Affirmation of Turkey's Genocide of Armenians

BY ALLEN YEKIKAN

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday hailed what he called progress in the ongoing talks to normalize his country's strained relations with Armenia. His remarks come amid growing concern in Yerevan that Ankara's increasingly uncompromising preconditions on Armenia may be guiding the negotiations in an untenable direction.

We all negotiate compromises every day, but it often seems that certain people always get their way. Do these skilled negotiators simply go with their gut instinct every time or are they just extremely calculating, figuring out all possible outcomes before settling on the best option? Behavioral studies have shown that emotions play an important role in decision making.

U.S. and Iraqi officials are expected to start negotiations Saturday in Baghdad on agreements to govern future relations between the two countries.

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