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Turkey and Armenia: When will the border crossings open?

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 1015 words · By Elmas Topcu; Aram Ekin Duran
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What to know about Turkey and Armenia: When will the border crossings open?

Deutsche Welle reports: Turkey and Armenia: When will the border crossings open?.

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Deutsche Welle reports: Turkey and Armenia: When will the border crossings open?.

Why it matters

April 3, 2026When the Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, stepped out of a car and walked toward his host, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in June 2025, it was a truly historic moment.

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The two politicians shook hands, and turned to face the cameras together.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Armenian media report that their government has made preparations for reopening the border crossings.”
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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm or refute Armenian media reports about border reopening preparations.
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Claim 2: “The Turkish-Armenian border crossings at Alican and Akyaka have been closed since the first Nagorno-Karabakh war.”
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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm or refute the closure of border crossings at Alican and Akyaka since the first Nagorno-Karabakh war.
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Claim 3: “The 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was officially recognized as genocide by Germany and many Western countries in 2016.”
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Wikipedia's 'Armenian genocide recognition' entry explicitly states that Germany and many Western countries recognized the 1915 Armenian genocide as genocide, aligning with the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The recognition of the Armenian genocide is the acknowledgement of the fact that the Ottoman Empire's systematic massacres and forced deportation of Armenians during the First World War, constituted g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide_recognition
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Armenians in Germany (Armenian: Հայերը Գերմանիայում, romanized: Hayery Germaniayum; German: Armenier in Deutschland) are ethnic Armenians living within the modern republic of Germany. Like much of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenians_in_Germany
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Claim 4: “The Iran war has delayed progress on opening the Turkish-Armenian border.”
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Claim 5: “Trade worth 300–350 million US dollars passes between Turkey and Armenia via Georgia.”
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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm or refute claims about economic ties between Turkey and Germany.
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Claim 6: “The Trump Corridor aims to reduce transport times between China and Europe.”
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Claim 7: “Armenia signed a peace agreement with Azerbaijan in 2022 that ended decades of war over Nagorno-Karabakh.”
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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm or refute the 2022 Armenia-Azerbaijan peace agreement.
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Claim 8: “The Armenian prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June 2025.”
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Wikipedia entries provide general information about Armenia, its borders, and Nikol Pashinyan but do not mention a 2025 meeting between Pashinyan and Erdogan. No independent sources corroborate this specific claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the n…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Armenia–Azerbaijan peace deal, officially titled the Agreement "On the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan", aims to end …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia–Azerbaijan_peace_agree…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nikol Vovayi Pashinyan (born 1 June 1975) is an Armenian politician who is serving as the 16th and current prime minister of Armenia since 8 May 2018. A journalist by profession, Pashinyan founded his…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan
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Claim 9: “The volume of bilateral trade could increase to one billion dollars if the border opens.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it insufficient evidence based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 10: “Turkey and Armenia share a land border almost 330 kilometers long.”
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Wikipedia entries on the Armenian genocide and Armenian highlands do not specify the length of the Turkey-Armenia border. The claim about 330 km is not confirmed by any cited sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Armenian highlands (Armenian: Հայկական լեռնաշխարհ, romanized: Haykakan leṙnašxarh; also known as the Eastern Anatolian highlands, Armenian upland, Armenian plateau, or Armenian tableland) comprise…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_highlands
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tiridates III (c. 250s – c. 330), also known as Tiridates the Great or Tiridates IV, was the Armenian Arsacid king from c. 298 to c. 330. In the early 4th century (301, according to tradition) Tiridat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiridates_III_of_Armenia
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Claim 11: “The Trump Corridor is a 43-kilometer road and rail corridor connecting Azerbaijan to Turkey through Armenia.”
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Claim 12: “Turkey closed the Turkish-Armenian border in 1993 due to its stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.”
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No evidence was found in Wikipedia or other sources to confirm or refute the closure of the Turkish-Armenian border in 1993.
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Claim 13: “Turkey's eastern provinces have a GDP per capita of €3,250 to €4,350, making them among the poorest regions.”
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Claim 14: “Turkey's companies hope for the normalization of relations and the opening of the border with Armenia.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it insufficient evidence based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 15: “Turkey started constructing a 224-kilometer railway stretch as part of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route.”
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