The Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinian A rare visit to Turkey, where he held talks on Friday with the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan In Istanbul.
Erdogan’s office emphasized that during the more than an hour, the two leaders took the peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the efforts to normalize relations with Türkiye, and the conflict between Israel and Iran, which is shared within borders with both Türkiye and Armenia.
This visit comes one day after the arrival of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev To Turkey, where he held talks with Erdogan and praised the Turkish -Azerbaijani alliance as “an important factor not only at the regional level but worldwide.”
Tension overwhelms Azerbaijan and Armenia’s relations, as they fought many wars around the Naqouri Qarah region.
With the support of Türkiye, Azerbaijan made major field gains in the region in 2020.
Erdogan stressed, “The importance of the compatibility reached in the ongoing peace negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, under the current circumstances, and that Türkiye will continue its full support for efforts to develop the region on the basis of the principle of profit for all.”
Erdogan and Prime Minister of Armenia discussed “the potential steps that can be taken within the framework of the normalization between Türkiye and Armenia.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev (French)
An in -depth dialogue
The Armenian Prime Minister said on the “X” platform that he had a “in -depth dialogue” with Erdogan, during which they discussed “the process of normalization between Armenia and Turkey and regional developments.”
Bashinyan assured the Turkish president that Armenia “is committed to building peace and stability in our region.”
Armenia and Turkey are not associated with official diplomatic relations, and their common borders have been closed since the 1990s.
Historical tension prevails between Türkiye and Armenia against the background of what is known as Armenian massacres World War II Under The Ottoman Empire.