To je velikim dijelom zbog toga što Turska podržava Azerbejdžan u tekućem sporu oko oblasti Nagorno-Karabah, te zbog napora Jerevana da se ubistvo 1,5 miliona armenskih civila od strane Turaka-Osmanlija iz perioda 1915-1917. proglasi genocidom.
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.