For the first time in 35 years, The Armenian border gate was opened to help the earthquake zone. Armenia sent 5 trucks of aid materials to Turkey.

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  2. When it’s about helping you are welcome (same as Greece) when the earthquake will be long gone, war threats will appear again.

  4. Btw total amount of the aid is around 100 tons.. can you imagine that?

    Thank you so much for this. Armenians are people with honor.

  7. Thank you Armenia. Hope that border opens permanently never to be closed again and we can live together as before

  11. as a turk my respect for armenians got bigger after they helped us. thanks 🙂 i hope our president will loose the elections that is in a few months and our relations with armenia gets better

  12. ı wish Turkish/Azerbaijani – Armenian relations get to a point as it was pre-1800. I miss “Millet -i Sadıka”(How Turks nicknamed Armenians in the old days, meaning “Loyal and beloved people”.).

  14. Because, luckily, most people know that history is history, the past is the past, and now people are in need.

    Now, if they were to save only Erdogan, probably no one would show up.

  16. I don’t want to generalize but the amount of antagonization I see from Europeans against Turkey on this subreddit is mind-baffling. **I know most of you are just supportive** of Turkey against this disaster **but some comments simply hurt**.Greece sends help and people comment on it in a manner that belittles Turkey as an ungrateful nation full of hate against its neighbours. Armenia offers relief and it is the same response all over again. Sweden sends aid and people question why ungrateful Turkey is not admitting Sweden to NATO etc.A couple of things is wrong with this thinking:

    1. I hope you visit Turkey one day and see first-hand the hospitality and willingness of the populace to help foreigners. In 1988 when a massive earthquake hit Armenia, Turks did help and I am sure it would happen again, even under Erdogan. Turkey has provided aid to people in need long before it would be considered semi-developed. So recent politics would not change that.
    2. This very same guy, Erdogan, did initiate a normalisation effort for Turkish-Armenian relations in 2008-2009 when he was pro-western and touted as a hero among European media outlets. The normalisation would have resulted in the opening of the border crossing between 2 countries but it failed due to large-scale Armenian protests against it. Why did they protest against it? Because many but not all Armenians seek compensation for 1915 even going as far as territorial compensation. YES, they do not accept the current borders as they stand. **The reason that border-crossing is closed in 1990s was that Armenia defacto annexed dejure Azerbaijani land around Nagorno-Karabakh which is against international law. An equivalent of this would be Turkish-Occupied Northern Cyprus offering help to Greece in an earthquake (God forbid) despite its non-existent relations.**
    3. Why would Turkey aiding Azerbaijan would have to do anything with this? Russia supports Armenia, so would not Azerbaijan offer help to Russia in a similar situation?
    4. **This may be the most important one: Geopolitics is convoluted and immoral. I should feel no need to mention this but I have opposed Erdogan my whole life, you Europeans jumped ship only during the last decade or so. Roughly half of the country has opposed him during his long reign, so putting the nation into the same pot with a religious populist leader is wrong.**
    **Your judgmental comments about Turkey accepting help from countries it has geopolitical issues with are disheartening, to say the least. It feels like you assume help should come with strings attached, which is just sad. Not that all countries’ political aims can align, but you should disassociate relief efforts like this from regional politics. I can assure you turkish people would do the same and offer help to any country in need, period.**

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