The first steps are made to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia.
As previously reported, the first meeting of Turkey and Armenian Sophia Kylyach and Ruben Rubinyan took place the other day in Moscow. Between the two countries on February 2, charter flights will be launched, and in the coming days there is a re-meeting of special specials.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlyut Chavushoglu on the eve of the on the eve of journalists that the goal is to fully normalize relations, and Armenia is satisfied with this.
“In the first meeting, the goals of launching the process and expectations from the process were discussed. In the next meeting, special representatives will work, what other steps can be taken along with the beginning of flights,” said Chavushoglu.
Foreign Minister added that the next meeting of special representatives will be devoted to the steps to increase mutual trust between the parties.
The Armenian community of Turkey also hopes to normalize relations with Armenia and the opening of borders. The patriarch of Armenians of Turkey Saak Mashalan told reporters that all the steps aimed at normalizing relations between countries with deep history, both in terms of investment and cultural ties.
Residents of the Kara region of Turkey, bordering Armenia, also say that they hope to normalize relations and opening borders, as it will revitalize trade in the region. In the report, prepared by the reporter of the France-Presse agency from this region (published by BBC), residents say that the opening of the border will revive the life in this remote region of Turkey. According to local residents, after the second Karabakh war and the liberation of Azerbaijan of the occupied territories, the number of wishing to open the border with Armenia has increased in Kars.
However, the moods on the streets of Yerevan are completely different and indicate that Armenian society has not yet derived lessons from what happened and prone to continuing hostility towards Turkey. Despite the fact that the normalization of relations with Turkey, the opening of the borders, as well as the opening of the Zangezur corridor, has vital for overcoming the current economic poverty, poverty and crisis.
The representatives of the Armenian government recognize that the country will continue to sink in the current poverty if the borders are not open, however, as reported in the reporting of the Air Force from the streets of Yerevan, the Armenians especially elderly and middle-aged oppose any relationship with Turkey. They constantly raise issues such as the “murder of one and a half million Armenians” and “murder of Armenian youth by Turkish” Bayraktar “in Karabakh” and declare that the establishment of relations with Turkey can become a threat to the Armenian state to disappear from the face of the Earth. Such a mood stems from Turkish hostility, which has been permanent by Armenian society for many years.