Security high for Turkey-Armenia 'football diplomacy'
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In a public appeal on Tuesday  Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Turkish football fans to show hospitality and not give in to possible provocations.
 "Our president was greeted with hospitality in Armenia... We should host Sarkisian and the Armenian team in the same manner as befits Turkish hospitality " he told a meeting of his party's lawmakers here.
 "I am confident that football lovers in Bursa will act with dignity and maturity " he added.
 Gul himself held a meeting with Bursa authorities and leaders of football fan groups last week in which he personally appealed for a smooth match.
 "We want to show the world a lesson in hospitality. I wish this match to be an example to world peace " Gul said in the meeting  according to an official statement.
 Sarkisian and Gul are expected to hold face-to-face talks and have dinner together before watching the match. The two leaders will then attend a reception before Sarkisian flies back home.
 Erdogan on Tuesday renewed calls on Armenia to make peace with Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh  thus making it easier for his government to move on the parliamentary ratification of the reconciliation deals.
In a public appeal on Tuesday  [TGT] urged Turkish football fans to show hospitality and not give in to possible provocations.
 "[TGT] was greeted with hospitality in Armenia... We should host Sarkisian and the Armenian team in the same manner as befits Turkish hospitality " [TGT] told a meeting of [TGT] party's lawmakers here.
 "I am confident that football lovers in Bursa will act with dignity and maturity " he added.
 Gul himself held a meeting with Bursa authorities and leaders of football fan groups last week in which he personally appealed for a smooth match.
 "We want to show the world a lesson in hospitality. I wish this match to be an example to world peace " Gul said in the meeting  according to an official statement.
 Sarkisian and Gul are expected to hold face-to-face talks and have dinner together before watching the match. The two leaders will then attend a reception before Sarkisian flies back home.
 [TGT] on Tuesday renewed calls on Armenia to make peace with Azerbaijan over Nagorny Karabakh  thus making it easier for [TGT] government to move on the parliamentary ratification of the reconciliation deals.