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Armenian Deputy Minister of Economy Anushik Avetyan visited the border crossing known as Alican by Turkey and Margara by Armenia. Avetyan emphasized that opening the border would lower logistics costs, increase the competitiveness of producers, and lead to a significant expected increase in investments in the region.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, touching upon relations with Türkiye at a conference he attended yesterday, stated, "The situation we are currently in is truly incredible and almost unimaginably positive." Emphasizing "concrete steps," Pashinyan said that relations with Azerbaijan are also developing faster than even Azerbaijan expected.

Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan evaluated President Erdogan's statements on December 16 regarding the Turkey-Armenia normalization process, in which he said, "We will take symbolic steps with Armenia next year." Pashinyan welcomed the statements, noting that "more comprehensive and concrete progress must now be implemented."

Last week, while wars continued in our region, geopolitical developments changed at an untraceable speed, and diplomacy in the world was completely devastated, President Erdoğan took a historical and hopeful step by inviting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Istanbul for a working visit. While this historically significant visit for Turkey and Armenia was taking place, we witnessed another disgrace that would cause a source of shame for the history of Istanbul Armenians – which we hope will not be repeated – and will be written as a black stain on the history of the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey. In the absence of the Patriarch, and probably with instructions from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Patriarchate officials locked the doors of the Patriarchate and played the "we're not home" game with a guest who came to their house, even though they were inside.