Dec 18 2009
Turkey’s Guilty Conscience
Source: Foreign Policy (www.foreignpolicy.com), 09.10.2009
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL
Pop quiz: Can you name one part of the world where the United States and the Russian Federation have been making common cause? Correct answer: in Turkey and Armenia, where the two powers have been collaborating of late.
And that’s only one of the many remarkable twists to emerge from a diplomatic quest that, for sheer complexity and emotional explosiveness, is likely rivaled only by the search for peace in the Middle East. It has been a wild ride, and it’s not over yet. Ankara and Yerevan are signing two historic agreements that could pave the way toward a major diplomatic rapprochement and an opening of the two countries’ common 325-kilometer border, which has been closed for the past 16 years.
“I think we’re seeing a series of high-water marks in a long process,” says the International Crisis Group’s Hugh Pope. “Considering where we’ve come from 10 years ago to where we are today, it’s nothing short of amazing.”
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