Yerevan comments on draft law to name its border checkpoint with Türkiye after Talaat Pasha

The checkpoint at the Türkiye-Armenia border has been proposed to be named after Mehmet Talaat Pasha, who was the Former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, and the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to this draft law, Report informs via Armenian media outlets.

"In the process of normalizing Armenia-Türkiye relations, Armenia takes into account the official positions and decisions of the Turkish government," the ministry said in response to the inquiry regarding this issue.

Some time ago, the chairman of Türkiye's IYI Party (Good Party), MP Musavat Dervisoglu, submitted a draft on this matter to the country's parliament.

Mehmet Talat Pasha was shot and killed in Berlin, Germany, in 1921 by Armenian terrorist Soghomon Tehlirian.