Milliyet: Why Turkey should be in favor of normalizing relations with Armenia?

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Despite the fact that over the last years the life in Armenia has stabilized, the population continues to decrease, due to a very difficult economic situation in the country," the Turkish Milliyet newspaper writes. The publication reminds that Turkey closed its border with Armenia for the solidarity to Azerbaijan.



"Today, about 8 to 10 million Armenians live in the world, although most of them now live abroad. According to the annual reports of the CIA in 2009, the population of Armenia was 2 million 967 thousand. As you can see most of the Armenians belong to Diaspora. The Diaspora began to rebel and express their discontent about the move in relations of Armenia and Turkey. Particularly Armenian communities in Europe and Central America behave actively," the article writes.



According to Milliyet, if the possible opening of the borders is necessary as much as the air one breathes to the population of Armenia (in economic terms), the Diaspora is not happy with the possible warming of relations. "Most of Armenians of the world are against reconciliation, so why should Turkey be for?," the Turkish newspaper asks.