Armenian FM Says Turkey Conditions Relations On Establishment of Land Corridor to Azerbaijan

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said that there is a readiness to restore relations with Turkey but it has preconditioned this on the establishment of a land corridor that connects it to Azerbaijan. In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro that was published on Sunday, Mirzoyan was asked if Yerevan would normalize ties with Turkey or accept the land corridor. The diplomat maintained that Armenia has always been ready for unconditional normalization of relations with Turkey “despite Turkey’s immense involvement in the war alongside Azerbaijan” during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh (known as Artsakh in Armenian). “We have always…