Updated: Erdoğan Once Again Connects Opening of Armenia-Turkey Border with Nagorno-Karabakh

Since Armenians still haven’t withdrawn from “Azerbaijani territories,” Turkey won’t open its border with Armenia, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit, according to CNN Turk.

Asked by the interviewer why Turkey doesn’t open its border with Armenia, Erdoğan said: “The border was closed because the Armenians attacked our Azerbaijani brothers and occupied Nagorno-Karabakh. The UN also considers that occupation. When the Armenians leave those territories, we will open the border.”

Referring to the passing of Armenian Genocide resolutions by various countries’ parliaments, the Turkish prime minister said that “That’s the result of propaganda by the Diaspora.”

“Parliamentarians occupy themseves with a subject that they have no connection to. Such resolutions shouldn’t be passed by third-party states. That’s only the political propaganda by the Armenian Diaspora,” he said.

Editor's Note: The original source, CNN Turk, was added to this article after it was posted online.