Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2009

from the "bordering on the absurd" dept.


The BBC has a story about the border between Armenia and Turkey that has, with the exception of a short period in the 1990s, been closed since 1927.
"Armenia has been commemorating the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks - and a Cold War-style closed border remains a symbol of that deep scar. [... MORE ...]"
Perhaps a border expedition to this part of the world is in order?