Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Never mind the gap: Turkish-Armenian relations past the crossroads

Einar Wigen

May 2010

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Abstract

The Turkish-Armenian protocols signed in October 2009 seemed to represent a historic advance that could help resolve the two countries' dispute over the events of 1915 and change the regional dynamics for the better. But six months on, the implementation of the protocols has stalled, the much vaunted normalisation of Turkish-Armenian state-to-state relations appears all but dead, and the will to revive the process is at a low point.