Leaders of Turkey, Armenia, keep encounter-to-deal with meeting
PRAGUE — The leaders of historic foes Turkey and Armenia on Thursday held their 1st confront-to-encounter meeting considering the fact that the two nations around the world agreed to increase relations.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Key Minister Nikol Pashinyan fulfilled in Prague on the sidelines of a summit by the leaders of 44 nations to launch a “European Political Community” aimed at boosting safety and financial prosperity throughout Europe.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was also existing at what appeared to be an informal collecting of the three leaders. No particulars of what they discussed quickly emerged.
Turkey and Armenia, which have no diplomatic relations, agreed very last yr to start talks aimed at putting a long time of bitterness at the rear of and reopen their joint border. Specific envoys appointed by the two nations have held four rounds of talks because then. Their conversations have resulted in an arrangement to resume constitution flights among Turkey’s major metropolis, Istanbul, and the Armenian funds of Yerevan.
Turkey, a close ally of Azerbaijan, shut down its border with Armenia in 1993 in a present of solidarity with Baku, which was locked in a conflict with Armenia above the Nagorno-Karabakh area.
In 2020, Turkey strongly backed Azerbaijan in the six-week conflict with Armenia around Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal that noticed Azerbaijan gain handle of a significant element of the region.
Turkey and Armenia also have a more than century-aged hostility around the deaths of an approximated 1.5 million Armenians in massacres, deportations and compelled marches that started in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
It is Ankara and Yerevan’s 2nd try at reconciliation. Turkey and Armenia arrived at an agreement in 2009 to build official relations and to open their border, but the arrangement was under no circumstances ratified mainly because of solid opposition from Azerbaijan.
Last thirty day period, Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated a cease-fireplace to conclusion a flare-up of fighting that killed 155 troopers from equally sides.
PRAGUE — The leaders of historic foes Turkey and Armenia on Thursday held their 1st confront-to-encounter meeting considering the fact that the two nations around the world agreed to increase relations.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Key Minister Nikol Pashinyan fulfilled in Prague on the sidelines of a summit by the leaders of 44 nations to launch a “European Political Community” aimed at boosting safety and financial prosperity throughout Europe.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was also existing at what appeared to be an informal collecting of the three leaders. No particulars of what they discussed quickly emerged.
Turkey and Armenia, which have no diplomatic relations, agreed very last yr to start talks aimed at putting a long time of bitterness at the rear of and reopen their joint border. Specific envoys appointed by the two nations have held four rounds of talks because then. Their conversations have resulted in an arrangement to resume constitution flights among Turkey’s major metropolis, Istanbul, and the Armenian funds of Yerevan.
Turkey, a close ally of Azerbaijan, shut down its border with Armenia in 1993 in a present of solidarity with Baku, which was locked in a conflict with Armenia above the Nagorno-Karabakh area.
In 2020, Turkey strongly backed Azerbaijan in the six-week conflict with Armenia around Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal that noticed Azerbaijan gain handle of a significant element of the region.
Turkey and Armenia also have a more than century-aged hostility around the deaths of an approximated 1.5 million Armenians in massacres, deportations and compelled marches that started in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
It is Ankara and Yerevan’s 2nd try at reconciliation. Turkey and Armenia arrived at an agreement in 2009 to build official relations and to open their border, but the arrangement was under no circumstances ratified mainly because of solid opposition from Azerbaijan.
Last thirty day period, Armenia and Azerbaijan negotiated a cease-fireplace to conclusion a flare-up of fighting that killed 155 troopers from equally sides.