LONDON — Efforts to reconcile Turkey and Armenia and open their common border could fail unless the process is carried out "properly," Turkey's foreign minister said Friday.
"If we are not convinced that the process is being carried out properly. There is no possibility to carry it forward," Ahmet Davutoglu told Turkish journalists in London.
Davutoglu's warning is the strongest response yet from Turkey to an Armenian court ruling in January that has cast doubt over accords signed in October. The Constitutional Court reaffirmed the Armenian government's obligation to seek recognition of the World War I mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide — a term vehemently rejected by Turkey.
(Reuters)
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