Turkish PM Erdogan: Resolution of Karabakh conflict is a condition to open Armenia-Turkey border

Since Armenians still have not withdrawn from Azerbaijan's occupied lands, Turkey will not open its border with Armenia, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit, according to CNN Turk.

Asked by the interviewer why Turkey doesn’t open its border with Armenia, Erdoğan said: “The border was closed because the Armenians attacked our Azerbaijani brothers and occupied Nagorno-Karabakh. The UN also considers that occupation. When the Armenians leave those territories, we will open the border.”

Referring to the passing of "Armenian genocide" resolutions by various countries’ parliaments, the Turkish prime minister said that “That’s the result of propaganda by the Diaspora.”

“Parliamentarians occupy themseves with a subject that they have no connection to. Such resolutions should not be passed by third-party states. That’s only the political propaganda by the Armenian Diaspora,” he said.


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