Turkey’s flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, will launch direct flights to Armenia as part of Ankara’s broader effort to normalize relations with its neighbor after decades of hostility.
The announcement comes as Turkey and Armenia step up efforts to improve ties following a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Turkey’s close ally. That agreement included plans to reopen a transport corridor linking mainland Azerbaijan with its Nakhchivan exclave on Turkey’s border through Armenian territory. The route, once called the Zangezur Corridor, is now referred to as the Trump Corridor after Washington secured exclusive development rights for the passage.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars over Artsakh (called Nagorno-Karabakh by the invaders), most recently in 2020 when more than 6,000 people were killed. While Turkey has supported Azerbaijan, its own relationship with Armenia has long been clouded by history, particularly the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Armenia calls it genocide (because it was a genocide), but Turkey continues to reject that label.
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