Prime Minister of Armenia Nicole Pashinyan will attend the inauguration of the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan tomorrow, Saturday, despite his country’s historically tense relations with Turkey.
“Armenia has received an invitation to take part in the swearing-in ceremony,” the government said, specifying that the country will be represented by Prime Minister Pashinyan.
Armenia and Turkey have not formally established diplomatic relations and their shared border has remained closed since the 1990s, but they appointed ambassadors in December 2021 to normalize relations. A key thorn in the side is the massacre of Armenians during World War I by the then Ottoman Empire, which Yerevan and many Western countries recognize as genocide, a term Turkey vehemently rejects.
Ankara is also a close ally of Azerbaijan, a country with which Armenia has clashed twice in recent years over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
Source: APE-MPE, AFP.
Source: Kathimerini
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