As Armenia’s summer vacation season winds down, one country, Turkey, will be missing from many of the usual travel tales. With Armenia’s attempts to reconcile with Turkey now at a standstill, Armenian tourists this summer largely bucked the trend of recent years and gave Turkey’s sun-drenched beaches a miss.
Amid a downturn in Turkish-Israeli relations, political support in Israel for a parliamentary vote on the recognition of Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 slaughter of ethnic Armenians as genocide appears to be growing.
Amidst the freeze on normalizing ties with Turkey, a group of Armenian architects and cultural heritage professionals is pushing ahead with a plan to rebuild a medieval bridge that links Armenia to Turkey.
US officials have declared that the United States regards the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia as separate processes. This policy, however, ignores the interests of Washington’s main partners in the region -- Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Two days before Armenia commemorates Ottoman Turkey’s World War I-era slayings of ethnic Armenians, President Serzh Sargsyan on April 22 called on Armenia’s parliament to "suspend" the process to ratify reconciliation protocols with Turkey.
