“Historic” meeting: Why Armenia is moving closer to Turkey

It's a rare visit: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Istanbul on Friday evening. The meeting, hailed as "historic" by Armenians, is a further step toward rapprochement between two countries whose relations have been strained by the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish support for Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Ankara and Yerevan have not maintained formal diplomatic relations since 1993. The border between the neighbors has been closed ever since.