"Istanbul Calling: For Turkey and Armenia, a Roadmap’s Unclear Final Destination
Yigal Schleifer
September 7, 2009
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Last week’s announcement by Turkey and Armenia that they have agreed on a set of protocols that will lead towards the normalization of their relations and the opening of their borders was certainly welcome news. A previous breakthrough in Turkish-Armenian reconciliation — last April’s vague declaration that the two countries had agreed on a “roadmap” for restoring relations — quickly fizzled out when Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that there would be no progress on the Armenian front until the “full liberating” of the Azeri territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, occupied by Armenian forces since 1993."
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