Turkey under EU pressure to open border with Armenia

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has said that Turkey is coming under intense pressure to open its border with Armenia, a move he warned would make a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict impossible.

Armenian forces drove Azerbaijani fighters out of Nagorno-Karabakh in the early 1990s and a 1994 cease-fire has largely held. However, Armenia and Azerbaijan have yet to reach a final settlement over the enclave, which is populated by ethnic Armenians but located within Azerbaijan.