Special Representative of Turkey to Discuss Steps to Normalize Relations with Armenia Serdar Kilic thanked the leadership of the Armenian Foreign Ministry for their help.
For the first time in 35 years, a checkpoint was opened on the Turkish-Armenian border to deliver humanitarian aid from Armenia to people affected by powerful earthquakes in southern Turkey.< /p>
This is reported by Anadolu.
Five trucks with humanitarian aid from Armenia crossed the border through the Alikan checkpoint in the province of Igdir in eastern Turkey. A video of Armenian trucks with humanitarian aid crossing the bridge in the direction of Turkey was released by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Vahan Kostanyan.
Turkey's Special Representative for the discussion of steps to normalize relations with Armenia, Serdar Kilic, thanked the leadership of the Armenian Foreign Ministry for their help.< /p>
The Alikan border checkpoint was last used in 1988, when a strong earthquake hit Armenia, and Turkey sent aid to the affected areas.
Last year, Turkey and Armenia agreed as soon as possible open the land border for third-country nationals visiting both countries. As part of these efforts, since February 2022, the parties have resumed commercial flights, which had previously been banned for two years.
Note that the border between the two neighboring countries has been closed since 1993 due to conflicts over a number of issues , including the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia and the events of 1915, during the Ottoman Empire.
Recall that the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey and Syria increased to 24,218 people.
