Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to attend inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip; Erdoğan on Saturday. Their relations were poisoned by the massacres of Armenians committed during the First World War.
Armenia and Turkey have never formally established diplomatic relations and their common border has been closed since the 1990s. The Armenian genocide is recognized by thirty countries and the community of historians. According to estimates, between 1.2 million and 1.5 million Armenians were killed during World War I by troops of the Ottoman Empire.