Last week the Office of Public Prosecutor of Turkey brought accusations against the 33 nationalists, involved in "Ergenekon" grouping, for preparations of the coup d'etat. The decision followed the arrests of several nationalists, members of "Ergenekon" grouping this week. The police caught the track of the nationalists after 700 kg explosive and weapon was found in a house in Istanbul last summer. According to Hürriyet, the members of grouping were in the past involved in radical Islamic organization "Hezbollah".

Every four years a new hope beams for the Armenian Community of the USA that a recurrent candidate, taking the post of the President, will finally recognize the Armenian Genocide. But of course this never happens, because after becoming the President of the USA, the one-time candidate has more serious issues on his agenda than the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, especially with the present economic crisis the country is suffering or the protracted operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and "the complications" with Iran that the USA is facing. Besides, if all the promises made during the election campaign were kept, we would have paradise on earth.

It's already been a year since the day of the assassination of the editor-in-chief of "Agos", yet its details are still unclear. Dink was killed by Turkey, which is the successor of the Ottoman Empire with all its intolerance towards "the infidels". Taner Akçam, who left for the USA in 1971 for some political motives, puts the blame for Dink's murder on "the submerged state".

The present visit of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation, in fact, doesn't differ from the previous ones: the shuttle democracy still keeps Azerbaijan away from the temptation of unleashing a war. But in spite of this, Baku continues deluding the population of the country and the latest statements made by the famous political scientist Vafa Guluzade, who "doesn't expect anything positive from the visit of the co-chairs" may serve as a proof.

The reasons underlying the resolution of the Kosovo issue which is being pushed on by the USA and EU are not only political but economic. The independence and the urge to separation from Serbia besides the concern for the Kosovo Albanians, pursue pure economic goals. There is the region of Trepca in Kosovo, which is very rich in minerals. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia many countries exported zinc, cadmium and silver from there. The coal that Kosovo possesses is valued very high as well.

The visit of the Turkish President Abdullah Gul to the USA was perfectly organized: meetings with George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, congressmen and the American-Turkish organizations were held. This is quite natural, since the Turkish President's visit to Washington was his first one as the President of Turkey. But the most noteworthy announcement was the one made by George Bush, who said that Turkey is the perfect example of a democratic country, which co-exists together with Islamic values.

The elections of the Georgian President are finished, and as it was supposed, Michael Saakashvili has been reelected for the second term, though not with as stunning results as for the first time, when he got almost the 90% of the votes. However, the results of these elections, the 52%, were not poor either. Everything would be just perfect, if not one condition. The reelection of Saakashvili has simply been programmed by the USA and nothing else on earth could change the Georgian history.

It is customary that at the end of the year the events of the passing year are being reviewed, though it should be mentioned that the year of 2007 wasn't rich with many significant events. The year of 2007 started with the tragic murder of Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish magazine in Istanbul. And although the murderer, the 17-year-old nationalist Ogyun Samast was arrested in some hours after the murder, his case has still been cancelled till February 2, 2008.

In the process of conflict resolution there is a formula, which always works out. If the regulation of the conflict is not handy for someone, or if its resolution is based on unacceptable bases for either of the parties, the topic is simply being "distorted". Most probably, regardless the "decisiveness" of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, the OSCE and EU itself, the process of the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict hasn't improved over the last 10 years.

In the light of the negotiations about Turkey's integration into the EU, the issue of the Armenian-Turkish relations, which over the last 18 years haven't gone any better, gets more significance. The unwillingness to normalize the relations is mutual: neither Armenia, nor Turkey need to open the borders, which are not clarified yet. The Kars and Lausanne Treaties, which set the borders between the two countries, are not denounced yet, though the official Ankara thinks that with the USSR breakdown no one ever thinks of them any longer.