In an article published by Carnegie Endowment, Turkey and Armenia are called to take confidence building measures to revive the process of normalization. The article listed opening of borders to tourists, invitation of diaspora Armenians to Turkey and initiation of Yerevan-Istanbul flights by Turkish airlines as important steps that can be made and called Turkey to make gestures of goodwill to Armenia.
Before the meetings that U.S. President Barack Obama will hold with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan during this week and before April 24th, American think tank organization Carnegie Endowment published an article and called Turkey to make gestures of good will towards Armenia to revive the process "after a year of dragging feet".
Washington based think tank organization Carnegie Endowment’s experienced Russia and Eurasia expert Thomas de Waal published an article entitled "Armenia and Turkey: Bridging the Gap" and wrote that current crisis between Turkey and Armenia will reach a head by April 24.
The author stated that almost no hope exists about ratification of protocols which signed by two countries any time soon and called countries to make little steps to build confidence and to confirm their belief on the process.
Stating that ratification of protocols will end the loneliness of Armenia and let Turkey gain a new role in Caucasus, Thomas de Waal called Turkey to open Turkish-Armenian border for tourists, to open Ottoman archives and digitalize whole archive, to invite Armenian diaspora to visit Anatolia and to initiate of Istanbul-Yerevan flights.
Political expert said that Armenia should end isolation of Nakhichevan in return although it stresses that there is no conection between Nagorno-Karabakh problem and Turkish-Armenian normalization process.
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