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it first has to normalize relations with Armenia. So as a first step, Turkey has agreed to lift the blockade," he said.On the issue of ratification, "the opposition is very strong, even within the ruling parties, both in Turkey and Armenia."
The European Armenian Federation for Justice has spoken out against the accords, which it says do not take into account issues such as the Turkish genocide of Armenians, recognition of the borders between Armenia and Turkey, and the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
Turkey has demanded that that Yerevan drop its campaign to have the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 internationally recognized as genocide.
Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for Azerbaijan, a predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ally of Ankara, following a bloody conflict over Nagorny Karabakh between the two republics.
The region in Azerbaijan, which has a largely Armenian population,
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