Dhaka, March 15 -- Turkish Airlines completed its inaugural scheduled flight between Istanbul Airport and Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, Armenia, on Wednesday, March 11.

The new route carries political significance, representing a step toward normalizing relations between Turkey and Armenia - two countries that have maintained an adversarial relationship since Armenia gained independence following the Soviet Union's dissolution in the early 1990s.

Turkey has long been a staunch ally of Azerbaijan, with which Armenia has had a decades-long territorial conflict. Following Azerbaijan's recapture of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between 2020 and 2023, Turkey and Armenia entered normalization talks, including discussions ...