Sat, Jul 5 11:01 PM
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian president Serzh Sarksyan has invited his Turkish counterpart to visit Yerevan for a football match in September, marking a shift in relations between the two states which have no diplomatic ties.
Armenia and Turkey will play against each other in the Armenian capital Yerevan on September 6 in a qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scheduled to be held in South Africa.
"Sarksyan has sent a formal invitation to the president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul," said Samvel Farmanyan, the Armenian president's spokesman.
Turkey broke diplomatic relations with Armenia in protest against Yerevan's control of Nagorno-Karabakh region over which Armenia fought Turkey's ally Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s.
Turkey was among the first countries to recognise Armenia's independence after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
Armenia also accuses Turkey of genocide during violence at the end of World War One. Turkey denies the accusations and says that both Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks died in fighting.
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