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Armenia And Turkey Reach For Cooperation Over Conflict [audio 4 minutes 4 seconds]

Turkey and Armenia are signing an agreement Saturday that aims to reopen their border and ease more than a century of sometimes bloody tension. Host Scott Simon talks to Hugh Pope, Turkey Project Director for the International Crisis Group about the two countries' resumption of diplomatic relations for the first time since World War One.
Read entire article at NPR - Weekend Edition Saturday