Armenia and Türkiye may establish formal diplomatic relations soon, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Friday, as the neighbors continue a normalization process that began in late 2021.
At the 2026 World Armenian Summit, he said formal ties would rest on each government recognizing the other's sovereign authority and respecting its territory and borders.
Neither country has formal diplomatic ties, while a land crossing between them has been closed since 1993. The normalization process dates to late 2021, when the governments appointed Serdar Kilic, a retired Turkish ambassador, and Ruben Rubinyan, deputy speaker of Armenia's Parliament, as envoys.
At a Sept. 23 meeting in New York, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan supported normalization through bilateral trade and transportation, Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications said. The directorate said Erdoğan also invited Pashinyan to the COP31 Leaders’ Summit in Türkiye. Pashinyan accepted, and EconoTimes previously reported his plan to attend COP31.
