by HASAN KANBOLATSecret meetings are being held between the parties in Europe. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, who arrived in İstanbul on Nov. 24 as the term president of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), announced that Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan will pay a visit to Turkey in October 2009. Nalbandian added that they were supportive of the normalization of relations without any preconditions and that they were asking for the opening of the border on the same terms.
The total length of the Turkish-Armenian border is 325 kilometers. There are two closed gates along this line: the Alican land border gate and the Akyaka Railway border gate. The first is located in the village of Alican in Iğdır province, while the latter is in Akyaka in Kars. The former name of Akyaka is Kızılçakçak; for this reason, the former name of the Akyaka Railway border gate is the Kızılçakçak gate. This gate, 66 kilometers from Kars, is publicly known as Doğu Kapı, whereas Armenians call it Ahuryan gate. In addition to a railway, the gate also includes a byroad.
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