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11.02.2023, 11:32

Today Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to Turkey. Trucks with humanitarian aid have crossed the Margara bridge on the border and are on their way to the earthquake-stricken region, Vahan Hunanyan, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said in a tweet.

Armenia sending humanitarian aid to Turkey - MFA

YEREVAN, February 11, /ARKA/. Today Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to Turkey. Trucks with humanitarian aid have crossed the Margara bridge on the border and are on their way to the earthquake-stricken region, Vahan Hunanyan, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said in a tweet.

The border was crossed for the first time since 1993. Earlier, Armenia sent search and rescue teams to quake-stricken areas in Turkey and Syria.

Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic ties. Turkey shut down their common border in 1993, in a show of solidarity with Azerbaijan, which was locked in a conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Turkey also refuses to recognize the Armenian genocide, committed during 1915-1923 when an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman government. The overwhelming majority of historians widely view the event as genocide.

In 2020, Turkey strongly backed Azerbaijan in the six-week conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with a Russia-brokered peace deal that saw Azerbaijan gain control of a significant part of Nagorno-Karabakh. -0-

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