Turkish, Armenian officials ‘to hold normalisation talks’ after 2-year lull

Special representatives from Turkiye and Armenia will hold a new round of talks aimed at normalising ties between the neighbours on Tuesday, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Monday. This will resume efforts to end years of animosity after a two-year pause in negotiations, Reuters has reported. Ankara severed diplomatic and commercial relations with Armenia in 1993 in support of Azerbaijan during a war fought by the two countries in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It has deepened its political and military ties with the ethnic Turkic Azeris in recent years. Since the conflict ended, NATO member Turkiye has also been working to revive its historically-strained ties with Armenia, although it has said that any normalisation with Yerevan depended on the progress […]