Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is paying a one-day visit to Yerevan today to attend the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) meeting, making him the highest-level Turkish official to visit Armenia since 2009.
Although a bilateral meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian was not scheduled as of late afternoon on Dec. 11, Turkish diplomats underlined that they would have no hesitation in holding talks with their host if they received an invitation from Armenia.
by BARÇIN YİNANÇ
“This is bad news for Armenia,” a member of the Armenian opposition told me, in the first days following Ukraine’s surprise refusal to sign an association deal with the European Union.
After Armenia, Ukraine appeared to be another country to succumb to Moscow’s pressure to turn its back to the West and join a customs union with Russia.
Ukraine has been on the international news agenda for days as thousands pro-EU demonstrators took to the street. U.S. senators John McCain and Chris Murphy were in Kiev on Sunday to address the crowds.
Azerbaijani forces say they have captured an Armenian spy following the latest in a series of tit-for-tat raids along the volatile frontier between the two arch-foes. “There was an attempt by an Armenian reconnaissance and sabotage group to cross the border in the Tovuz region (northwestern Azerbaijan) on January 28,” the defence ministry in Baku said in a statement released late Tuesday.
