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Baku/07.01.12/Turan: Special representatives of Turkey and Armenia will hold their first meeting to normalize relations on January 14 in Moscow, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The two neighbors that have no diplomatic relations, agreed last month to appoint special representatives to discuss ways to establish official ties and do away with years of strained relations, AR reports. Turkey and Armenia also hope to resume charter flights between Istanbul and Yerevan. The move is seen as a part of efforts to ease tensions in the Caucasus region.
The Foreign Ministry statement said nothing about details of the meeting to be held in Moscow. Turkey has appointed former Ambassador to the U.S. Serdar Kılıç as its special envoy and Armenia has appointed Ruben Rubinyan, a deputy speaker of the Parliament.
Ankara and Yerevan reached an agreement in 2009 to establish official relations and open their joint border; however, the agreement was never ratified due to Azerbaijani opposition. This time, however, reconciliation efforts have received Azerbaijan's blessing, and Turkish officials stated Ankara is "coordinating" the normalization process with Azerbaijan.
It must be acknowledged that Turkey, a close ally of Azerbaijan, closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with Baku which had been embroiled in conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
In 2020, Turkey strongly supported Azerbaijan in a six-week conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh which ended with a Russian-mediated peace agreement that gave Azerbaijan control over a large part of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Also, Turkey and Armenia are faced with more than a century of animosity over alleged deaths of Armenians in massacres, deportations and marches in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
Turkey categorically rejects the genocide label while accepting that many died in that era, but insists that the death toll is exaggerated and that the deaths were the result of civil unrest.-0-
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