Opening of Armenian-Turkish border not linked to Karabakh conflict resolution

PanARMENIAN.Net - The main idea of the Armenian-Turkish agreement on road map is that normalization of relations should proceed simultaneously with the Karabakh conflict settlement process but independently of it, a Turkish professor said.



"Opening of the Armenian-Turkish border is not linked to Karabakh conflict resolution," Mustafa Aydin, professor of international relations department at Tobb University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.



As to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Azerbaijan, prof. Aydin said it was a PR move.



"Actually, Turkish PM visited Baku to negotiate some energy issues, specifically Nabucco project ands Azeri gas price. I think that if Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations are normalized, Armenia will become a full-fledged member of Nabucco project," he said.