This is largely due to Turkey's support of Azerbaijan in the ongoing dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and to Yerevan's effort to classify the killings of 1.5 million Armenian civilians by Ottoman Turks in 1915-1917 as genocide.
Razlog je uglavnom potpora Turske Azerbejdžanu u tekućem sporu glede regije Nagorno-Karabakh i napora Yerevana da se ubojstvo 1,5 milijuna armenskih civila od strane otomanskih Turaka 1915-1917 klasificira kao genocid.