Historical visit to Istanbul: Armenia’s head of the Nikol Paschinjan government, whose country has been hostile to Turkey for more than a hundred years, traveled to the neighboring country on Friday. The Armenian head of government was invited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Paschinjan had arrived in Turkey for a working visit, said his spokeswoman in the online service Facebook. An official from the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the AFP press agency that the meeting should be about a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to Erdogan’s office, Paschinjan and Erdogan wanted to meet Mesz in Istanbul in the Dolmabahce Palace at 5:00 PM. Cest. The Armenian parliamentary spokesperson Alen Simonjan called the visit “historical”. “It will be the first time that a leading politician of the Republic of Armenia visits Turkey at this level,” said Simonjan. All regional things would be discussed, he added.
Recently tense relationship
The relationship between Armenia and Turkey is historically extremely stressed. Until now, Ankara has refused to recognize the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman troops as a genocide in the First World War. At the beginning of the year, Paschinjan announced that Armenia would hire his dedication to the international recognition of the massacre in 1915 as a genocide – an important concession to Turkey, who met broad criticism in Armenia.
Armenia and Azerbaijan had held two wars against each other in recent decades about the control of the Bergkarabach region. In 2023, Azerbaijan, who was supported by Turkey, then brought the Bergkarabach region under his control in a large -scale military offensive. The military operation caused the escape of the more than 100,000 Armenian inhabitants to Armenia. Armenia and Azerbaijan announced half -march that they had agreed on a peace agreement, but this has not finally been signed.
Source: Krone
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