Turkey and Armenia: Normalizing Relations, Reopening Border

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | October 14th, 2009 | Trackback

After a century of hostility, Turkey and Armenia have signed an agreement to normalize relations, a deal that must still be ratified by parliaments of both countries. The agreement will reopen the border closed by Turkey in 1993 and call for a commission of independent historians to examine the question of genocide in 1915 and 1923, which Armenians want recognized and Turks want rejected. Strong opposition to the deal exists in both countries, but there is little to be gained by keeping old grudges alive.

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