"Crisis warms Turks to opening Armenia border
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KARS, Turkey (AFP) — Hit by a bruising economic crisis, residents of Kars, in eastern Turkey, are increasingly warming to the idea of opening the border with Armenia, hoping that revived trade links would provide a lifeline to the impoverished region.
The border's closure in 1993 -- ordered by Turkey to back Azerbaijan in a territorial conflict with Armenia -- has had heavy economic consequences not only for Armenia but also this Turkish city of 80,000."
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