Ankara Hails Progress in Talks as Yerevan's Concerns Heighten

BY ALLEN YEKIKAN

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday hailed what he called progress in the ongoing talks to normalize his country's strained relations with Armenia. His remarks come amid growing concern in Yerevan that Ankara's increasingly uncompromising preconditions on Armenia may be guiding the negotiations in an untenable direction.